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Bookmark or Share- Space Monkey Able Celebrates Flight’s 50th AnniversaryOn May 28, 1959, a rhesus monkey named Able, plucked from a zoo in Independence, Kansas, and a squirrel monkey named Baker, made history as the first mammals to survive space flight.
- Space Monkey - Space Launch ScheduleSpace Monkey is an American web engineer and aspiring astronaut who goes bananas for rocket launches. Space Monkey works hard to ensure his fans get the most up-to-date information about the Space Launch Schedule.
- Monkeys and apes in space - WikipediaOn June 14, 1949, Albert II survived a sub-orbital V-2 flight into space (but died on impact after a parachute failure) to become the first monkey, first primate, and first mammal in space. His flight reached 134 km (83 mi) – past the Kármán line of 100 km which designates the beginning of space.
- Ham (chimpanzee) - WikipediaKnown for. First hominid in space. 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 of the U.S. space program's Project Mercury.
- A Brief History of Animals in Space - NASAOn 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.
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