1998年1月18日 · On September 20, 1951, a monkey named Yorick and 11 mice were recovered after an Aerobee missile flight of 236,000 feet at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. Yorick got a fair amount of press as the first monkey to live through a space flight.

Ham (July 1957 – January 19, 1983), a chimpanzee also known as Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp, was the first great ape launched into space. On January 31, 1961, Ham flew a suborbital flight on the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission, part …

On June 14, 1949, Albert II survived a sub-orbital V-2 flight into space (but died on impact after a parachute failure) [2] to become the first monkey, first primate, and first mammal in space. His flight reached 134 km (83 mi) – past the Kármán line …

2020年4月21日 · The honor of first primates to survive a return trip to space goes to a squirrel monkey named Miss Baker, and a rhesus macaque named Able. The pair were launched in 1959 on a Jupiter rocket, an intermediate-range ballistic …

2021年11月29日 · Sixty years ago, on November 29, 1961, Enos became the first chimpanzee to orbit the Earth. He flew on NASA’s Mercury-Atlas 5 (MA-5) mission, which the relatively new space agency deemed necessary before orbiting an astronaut in a Mercury capsule. But Enos is little remembered today.

2021年1月31日 · The first space-bound primate was Albert, a rhesus macaque who launched aboard a V2 rocket on June 11, 1948. He did not make it to space and died of suffocation during the flight. He was followed by Albert II, another rhesus who became the first monkey and first primate in space on June 14, 1949, traveling 21 miles (34 km) above the Kármán line.

5 天之前 · THE FIRST ANIMALS IN SPACE. Before Ham went on his historic journey, several animals had been sent to space. The first living creatures sent to space were fruit flies. They were sent by the United States on February 20, 1947, aboard a V-2 rocket to study radiation effects. Albert I and II were rhesus monkeys sent into space by the USA in 1948 ...

2021年6月29日 · On January 31, 1961, NASA launched Ham the chimp into suborbital flight in an MR-2 rocket — making him the first chimpanzee in space. While the Soviets had sent dogs into space before, those missions merely tried to see if they could survive the trip.

2024年5月8日 · Ham, a 37-pound chimpanzee who was the first hominid in space, trained by NASA to operate a capsule in space. His trainer described the moment he was recovered from his capsule following the project – “I have never seen such terror on a chimp’s face.”

2012年6月25日 · June 11, 1948: A U.S. military V-2 rocket launched from White Sands, New Mexico carrying Albert I, a rhesus monkey, into space. Lack of fanfare and documentation made Albert an unsung hero of...