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Enos (born about 1957 – died November 4, 1962) was a chimpanzee launched into space by NASA, following his predecessor Ham. He was the only non-human primate to orbit the Earth, [ 1 ] and the third hominid to do so after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov .
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.
Ham and Enos were among 60 chimpanzees brought to New Mexico by the U.S. Air Force for space flight tests. Six were selected to be trained at Cape Canaveral by Tony Gentry et al. [9] Goliath, a squirrel monkey, died in the explosion of his Atlas rocket on November 10, 1961. A rhesus macaque called Scatback flew a sub-orbital flight on December ...
Episode two of Chimp Crazy shows Haddix in Jan. 2022, claiming under oath that Tonka died of natural causes. In the same episode, she later shows the cameras that she lied about the chimp's death ...
As with that series, "Chimp Crazy" — as the title suggests — is less about the animals than the people who own them. The four-part docuseries premieres Sunday on HBO at 10 p.m. Pacific and ...
Eventually, the documentarians involved with “Chimp Crazy” told PETA about Tonka’s whereabouts, believing his welfare was endangered. Haddix planned to euthanize the animal.
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.
Haddix told them the missing primate, Tonka, had died on May 30 from heart failure. As “Chimp Crazy” reveals, however, Haddix had sneaked her most beloved chimp to a friend’s house in Ohio.