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Mercury Project
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A three-year-old chimpanzee, named Ham, in the biopack couch for the MR-2 suborbital test flight. On January 31, 1961, a Mercury-Redstone launch from Cape Canaveral carried the chimpanzee "Ham" over 640 kilometers down range in an arching trajectory that reached a peak of 254 kilometers above the Earth. The mission was successful and Ham performed his lever-pulling task well in response to the flashing light.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineMercury Project. NASA/MSFC, 1961-01-01. Public domain. ID: 6100114.
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