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Recovery - Mercury-Redstone (MR)-2 - Loaded on Ship - Chimp "Ham"
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S61-00199 (31 Jan. 1961) --- Recovery personnel aboard the USS Donner remove ?Ham?, a 37-pound chimpanzee, from a Mercury-Redstone spacecraft following the successful Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) suborbital flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The primate's 420-statute mile MR-2 flight was a significant accomplishment on the American route toward manned spaceflight.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineRecovery - Mercury-Redstone (MR)-2 - Loaded on Ship - Chimp "Ham". NASA/JSC, 1961-01-31. Public domain. ID: S61-00199.
