11/11/2023 0 Comments First chimp in space 1961![]() The telemetry included information on heating, pressure, noise, and vibrations. These included an environmental control system, an attitude stabilization control system, a ‘closed loop’ abort sensing system, and a pneumatic landing bag. The capsule used on MR-2 had many new innovations that had not been previously flight-tested. “The Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) mission was the prelude to Alan Shepard’s suborbital space flight. Three extremely rare in-flight views taken by the pilot observer camera show Ham in the capsule. Seven color views of the Earth from space photographed during Ham’s suborbital flight by the onboard automatic Maurer 220G camera loaded with GAF Super Anscochrome T-100 Superior ASA 64 color reversal are included. ![]() These rare contact sheets (used at NASA Headquarters in Washington to consult available photographs of the mission) cover all aspects of Ham’s mission, from training to liftoff and recovery. The chimpanzee Ham survived the 5,000 mile an hour flight in fine shape. A marine helicopter from the USS Donner airlifted it back to its flight deck. The Mercury Redstone 2 capsule floats in the Sea, 420 status miles from Cape Canaveral, Fla. When the launch finally occurred, at 11:55 p.m., Ham was subjected to a 6-g accelerative force followed by a momentary exposure to 17- g’s when the rockets on the escape system fired” (). “The MR-2 launch was delayed approximately four hours because of inverter overheating. The spacecraft reached a maximum altitude of 157 statute miles. The suborbital flight lasted a total of 16 minutes and 39 seconds, and carried the spacecraft 420 nautical miles from Launch Complex 5 at Cape Canaveral. MR-2 launched on January 31, 1961, carrying Ham, a four-year-old- old male chimpanzee. ![]() The MR-2 flight test is designed to provide a test of the Mercury spacecraft’s environmental control and recovery system. The MR-2 launch is one of a series of launches scheduled by NASA in its manned orbital flight program, Project Mercury. Animals handlers from the Aeromedical Field Laboratory, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, release a chimpanzee from its flight couch after training for the Mercury Redstone 2 launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Two vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based Ansco paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), contact sheets with labels indicating photo numbers affixed below the images (NASA HQ) The suborbital spaceflight of Ham the Chimp including in-flight views of Ham and views of the Earth from space Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ caption numbered “61- MR2-27” on the verso Recovery of the Mercury capsule hosting the chimpanzee Ham after its successful suborbital flight Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso Liftoff of the Redstone rocket carrying the chimpanzee Ham into space on a suborbital flight Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ caption numbered “61- MR2-2” on the verso The flies were recovered alive.The chimpanzee Ham training for his suborbital flight Previous life launched into space īefore Albert II the only previous known living beings in space were fruit flies, launched by the United States in a V-2 rocket suborbital flight on February 20, 1947. The capsule was redesigned in-between flights to enlarge the cramped quarters experienced by Albert I. Īlbert II's flight, run by the Alamogordo Guided Missile Test Base and organized with the help of Holloman Air Force Base, followed the likely preflight death of Albert I before a 39 mi (63 km) high mesospheric flight aboard a V-2 rocket on June 11, 1948. Albert's respiratory and cardiological data were recorded up to the moment of impact. Albert died upon reentry after a parachute failure caused his capsule to strike the ground at high speed. ![]() He flew from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States, to an altitude of 83 miles (134 km) aboard a U.S. 47 at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico carried Albert II to become the first primate and first mammal in spaceĪlbert II, a male rhesus macaque monkey, was the first primate and first mammal in space. First primate and first mammal in space On June 14, 1949, V-2 launch No.
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