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Ham the Chimpanzee in Spacesuit
(Original Caption) 1/1961-USS Donner- "Ham, " the astrochimp, reaches for an apple offered to him by a crewman of the USS Donner. This was the first food for the chimpanzee following a 420-mile ride in a Mercury capsule launched by a Redstone Rocket from Cape Canaveral. "Ham" reached an altitude of 157 miles, traveled 5, 857 miles an hour and was weightless for 6.6 minutes. His mission -successfully accomplished- was to validate the environmental control system of the Mercury spacecraft, which carried astronaut John Glenn
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Media ID 39110801
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