NASA personnel aboard USS Donner remove Ham a 37-pound chimpanzee from Mercury Redstone spacecraft

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NASA personnel aboard USS Donner remove Ham a 37-pound chimpanzee from Mercury Redstone spacecraft

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(31 Jan. 1961) --- Recovery personnel aboard the USS Donner remove Ham, a 37-pound chimpanzee, from a Mercury-Redstone spacecraft following the successful Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) suborbital flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The primate's 420-statute mile MR-2 flight was a significant accomplishment on the American route toward manned spaceflight.

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