Ham - a 37-pound chimpanzee - America's first ~astronaut

Ham - a 37-pound chimpanzee - became America's first astronaut when he was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Redstone (MR-2) suborbital flight on 31 January 1961. In a memo written the next day, NASA's Warren J. North noted: "Ham appeared to be in good physiological condition but sometime later when he was shown the spacecraft it was visually apparent that he had no further interest in co-operating with the space-flight program."

Americas Apparent Appeared Canaveral Chimpanzee Further Launched Memo Mercury Nasas Noted Operating Physiological Pound Redstone Sometime Spacecraft Visually

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