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Ray Allen & The Embers released the song "Ham the Space Monkey" in 1961. Tom Wolfe's 1979 book The Right Stuff depicts Ham's spaceflight, [28] as do its 1983 film and 2020 TV adaptations. The 2001 film Race to Space is a fictionalized version of Ham's story; the chimpanzee in the film is named "Mac". [29]
Enos the Chimpanzee travels to space on NASA's Mercury Atlas 5 1960, YouTube video "Voyage of space chimpanzee Enos ended in Bermuda" by Gail Westerfield; A film clip Chimp into space (no title), 1961/11/30 (1961) is available for viewing at the Internet Archive
Mercury-Atlas 5 was an American spaceflight of the Mercury program.It was launched on November 29, 1961, with Enos, a chimpanzee, aboard.The craft orbited the Earth twice and splashed down about 200 miles (320 km) south of Bermuda, and Enos became the first primate from the United States and the third great ape to orbit the Earth.
Enos, the third great ape and only chimpanzee to orbit the Earth, being prepared for launch on Mercury-Atlas 5 (November 29, 1961) Able, who flew on the first two monkey space mission in May 1959, on display at the National Air and Space Museum Sam, a rhesus macaque, flew to an altitude of 88 km (55 mi) on December 4, 1959, on a NASA rocket, Little Joe 2
During the November 29, 1961, NASA Mercury-Atlas 5 flight, Enos became the only chimpanzee and third primate to orbit Earth. One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps is a 2008 documentary film produced and directed by David Cassidy and Kristin Davy which aired on History Channel UK and CBC Television.
Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) was the test flight of the Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle just prior to the first crewed American space mission in Project Mercury.Carrying a chimpanzee named Ham on a suborbital flight, Mercury spacecraft Number 5 was launched at 16:55 UTC on January 31, 1961, from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 January 2025. Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, rode a Jupiter IRBM (scale model of rocket shown) into space in 1959. Landmarks for animals in space 1947: First animals in space (fruit flies) 1949: First primate and first mammal in space 1950: First mouse in space 1951: First dogs in space 1957: First ...
Monkeys and apes in space; Animals in space; Alice King Chatham, who designed Albert II's oxygen mask and harness; Laika, a Russian space dog, the first animal to orbit the Earth (November 3, 1957) Ham, a chimpanzee, the first great ape in space (January 31, 1961) Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space and first primate to orbit the Earth ...