File:Chimpanzee Ham in Biopack Couch for MR-2 flight MSFC-6100114.jpg
Summary
A three-year-old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chimpanzee" class="extiw" title="w:chimpanzee">chimpanzee</a>, named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_the_Chimp" class="extiw" title="w:Ham the Chimp">Ham</a>, in the biopack couch for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_2" class="extiw" title="w:Mercury-Redstone 2">MR-2</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/suborbital" class="extiw" title="w:suborbital">suborbital</a> test flight. On January 31, 1961, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_Launch_Vehicle" class="extiw" title="w:Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle">Mercury-Redstone</a> launch from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station" class="extiw" title="w:Cape Canaveral Air Force Station">Cape Canaveral</a> 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. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" class="extiw" title="w:NASA">NASA</a> used chimpanzees and other primates to test the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_spacecraft" class="extiw" title="w:Mercury spacecraft">Mercury capsule</a> before launching the first American astronaut <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shepard" class="extiw" title="w:Alan Shepard">Alan Shepard</a> in May 1961. The successful flight and recovery confirmed the soundness of the Mercury-Redstone systems.
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| current | 01:07, 4 January 2017 | | 3,000 × 2,287 (8.02 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | A three-year-old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chimpanzee" class="extiw" title="w:chimpanzee">chimpanzee</a>, named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_the_Chimp" class="extiw" title="w:Ham the Chimp">Ham</a>, in the biopack couch for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_2" class="extiw" title="w:Mercury-Redstone 2">MR-2</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/suborbital" class="extiw" title="w:suborbital">suborbital</a> test flight. On January 31, 1961, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_Launch_Vehicle" class="extiw" title="w:Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle">Mercury-Redstone</a> launch from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station" class="extiw" title="w:Cape Canaveral Air Force Station">Cape Canaveral</a> 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. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" class="extiw" title="w:NASA">NASA</a> used chimpanzees and other primates to test the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_spacecraft" class="extiw" title="w:Mercury spacecraft">Mercury capsule</a> before launching the first American astronaut <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shepard" class="extiw" title="w:Alan Shepard">Alan Shepard</a> in May 1961. The successful flight and recovery confirmed the soundness of the Mercury-Redstone systems. |
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