Ham_Launch_-_GPN-2000-001007_(cropped).jpg

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English: Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) launch with chimpanzee Ham aboard. Monkeys had been flown into space before, but Ham was the first higher primate to test a spacecraft.

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31 January 1961

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