Saluting HAM

Wikipedia notes that Jan 31 1961 was Ham's flight of fame, aboard MR2.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Ham_the_chimp.jpg/90px-Ham_the_chimp.jpg

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"snidely" wrote in message
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Wikipedia notes that Jan 31 1961 was Ham's flight of fame, aboard MR2.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Ham_the_chimp.jpg/90px-Ham_the_chimp.jpg

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Hey, I just read about that flight in the book I'm reading - This New
Ocean. That poor monkey/chimp. He should have been giving some medal by
the president after that ride. lol What a hilarious episode in U.S. space
history. After that ride he should have bit the finger off every person at
NASA, or at least the people who put that rocket together.

Is there an animal astronaut Hall of Fame? If so he's a first round
inductee.

Here are some PDF report files about Ham's flight

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Results of the Project Mercury Ballistic-and Orbital Chimpanzee Flights
Henry, J. P.; Mosely, J. D.
NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI)
NASA-SP-39 , 19630101; Jan 1, 1963
Objectives, methods, results, and conclusions of ballistic and orbital
mercury flights /mr-2 and ma-5 flights/ with chimpanzees
Accession ID: 64N12915
Document ID: 19640003002
75-PAGES

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1964003002.pdf

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Actual trajectory of Mercury-Redstone flight test MR-2
Ledford, H.
NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI)
NASA-TM-X-51215; MTP-AERO-61-30 , 19610404; Apr 4, 1961

Accession ID: 74N72500

64 pages

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974074561.pdf

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Rusty

"snidely" wrote in message
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Wikipedia notes that Jan 31 1961 was Ham's flight of fame, aboard MR2.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Ham_the_chimp.jpg/90px-Ham_the_chimp.jpg

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He's buried in the courtyard at the New Mexico Museum of
Space History in Alamogordo, right?
I think I read that somewhere.

RT