Monkey That Went To Space
Albert ii was sent into space aboard a v2 rocket.
Monkey that went to space. Ham also known as ham the chimp and ham the astrochimp was a chimpanzee and the first hominid launched into space. An original member of nasa s space task group thompson had been. On january 31 1961 ham flew a suborbital flight on the mercury redstone 2 mission part of the u s.
The first primate astronaut was albert a rhesus macaque who on june 11 1948 rode to over 63 km 39. Enter sam an eight pound rhesus monkey. Space program s project mercury.
Soviet union and russia. His name was also in honor of the. It was up to thompson to recover sam or what remained of him after the test flight.
The us sent four monkeys into space named albert all of which died. Albert ii was a rhesus monkey a small monkey that is known for its survivability of a large range of habitats. Another rhesus monkey named albert ii for example became the first primate to reach space achieving an altitude of 83 miles 134 km aboard another v2 in june 1949.
He was sent up in 1949 and died on. Ham s name is an acronym for the laboratory that prepared him for his historic mission the holloman aerospace medical center located at holloman air force base in new mexico southwest of alamogordo. Sixty years ago today a pair of female monkeys made history when they went to space and landed safely but their story was only just beginning to get weird.
They flew to a height of 360 miles 580 km on may 28 1959 aboard a jupiter rocket. The soviet. Monkeys and apes in space united states.