DescriptionChimpanzee Ham in Biopack Couch for MR-2 flight MSFC-6100114.jpg
English: A three-year-old
chimpanzee, named
Ham, in the biopack couch for the
MR-2suborbital test flight. On January 31, 1961, a
Mercury-Redstone launch from
Cape Canaveral carried the chimpanzee "Ham" over 640 kilometers (400 mi) down range in an arching trajectory that reached a peak of 254 kilometers (158 mi) above the Earth. The mission was successful and Ham performed his lever-pulling task well in response to the flashing light.
NASA used chimpanzees and other primates to test the
Mercury capsule before launching the first American astronaut
Alan Shepard in May 1961. The successful flight and recovery confirmed the soundness of the Mercury-Redstone systems.
The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the
Soviet/
Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain.
The
SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use.
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