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NASA ID: MSFC-9801835	Mission: Mercury-Redstone 2	Taken/released on:

Chimpanzee Ham in spacesuit

Ham, a three-year-old chimpanzee, in the spacesuit he would wear for the second Mercury- Redstone (MR-2) suborbital test flight in January, 1961. NASA used chimpanzees and other primates to test the Mercury capsule before launching the fisrt American astronaut, Alan Shepard, in May 1961. The Mercury capsule rode atop a modified Redstone rocket, developed by Dr. Wernher von Braun and the German Rocket Team in Huntsville, Alabama. (Source: MSFC)

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Notes on this image: Photo taken in January 1961.

Alternative PhotoIDs: 0013H;

Keywords: mercury redstone mr-2 ham chimpanzee animal

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Image last modify: 4/12/2004

Credits: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center;

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