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Space Chimpanzee While in Flight

dc.coverage.temporal1961en
dc.creatorNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-24T22:05:24Z
dc.date.available2017-08-24T22:05:24Z
dc.date.created1961-02-10
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/161800
dc.descriptionClose up photo of "Ham" the Chimpanzee shown here during the 5000 mile per hour ride. This photograph was taken by an automatic 16 mm camera with a film exposure of four frames per second. Writing on the photo or group of photos: ' NASA Photo No. 61-MR2-32. For Immediate Release 2-10-61. "Ham" , the first chimpanzee to ever ride into space, is shown here during the 5000 mile per hour ride. This photograph was taken by an automatic 16 mm camera with a film exposure of four frames per second. ' Physical description: Black and white print (photograph) 24x19mm.en
dc.description.abstract"Ham", whose name was an acronym for Holloman Aerospace Medicine, became the first chimpanzee in space aboard the Mercury Redstone rocket on January 31, 1961. Ham was born in French Camarrons, West Africa in July of 1956 or 57 and brought to the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico to start his training in 1959. Ham's mission paved the way for the first human astronauts. Ham died in 1983 is memorialized by a burial stone at the International Space Hall of Fame in Alamogordo, New Mexico; while his skeleton is part of the National Museum of Health and Medicine's collection. Dr. Thomas Lee Wolfle, D.V.M. (TAMU '61) worked with Ham and other NASA Primate in the program in those early days.en
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dc.subjectNational Aeronautics and Space Administrationen
dc.subjectChimpanzeesen
dc.subjectPrimates--Trainingen
dc.subjectSpace researchen
dc.subjectSpace sciencesen
dc.subjectHamen
dc.subjectAnimal space flighten
dc.subject.meshSpace Flighten
dc.subject.meshResearchen
dc.subject.meshAnimals, Laboratoryen
dc.subject.meshAerospace Medicineen
dc.titleSpace Chimpanzee While in Flighten
dc.contributor.sponsorCollege of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
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