Photograph of Ham the Chimpanzee Reaching for an Apple after Landing Safely inside a Mercury Capsule

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Photograph of Ham the Chimpanzee Reaching for an Apple after Landing Safely inside a Mercury Capsule

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Original caption: Ham reaches out from his couch to take an apple from a crewman of the USS Donner. This was the first food for the chimpanzee following a 430 mile ride in a Mercury capsule launched by a Redstone rocket from Cape Canaveral Jan. 31, 1961.
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31/01/1961
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The U.S. National Archives
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