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In 1961, a young chimpanzee captured in Cameroon and trained at a New Mexico air force base became the first hominin to travel into space and return alive — and the program kept him publicly nameless throughout the mission, as if to avoid the grief of los
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In 1961, a young chimpanzee captured in Cameroon and trained at a New Mexico air force base became the first hominin to travel into space and return alive — and the program kept him publicly nameless throughout the mission, as if to avoid the grief of los
In January 1961, three months before Alan Shepard became the first American astronaut to travel into space, the United States space program launched a chimpanzee on a suborbital flight aboard the second Mercury-Redstone mission. The chimpanzee survived. The flight was the final test before the program was prepared to risk a human being on the same trajectory. The chimpanzee was, in a meaningful sense, the prerequisite for the entire American cre…
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