Space Earth U.S. Project Mercury Space Chimpanzee - from our story '1961: Ham the chimpanzee is shot into space'

?Ham,? the space chimp, after the 420 mile ride aboard a Redstone rocket in Cape Canaveral on Feb. 1, 1961. The chimpanzee was fired from Cape Canaveral, Florida riding in a Mercury capsule. (AP Photo)

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