5/1/07

Space Monkey (1959)

Ham the space monkey was sent up in an American space satellite as a prelude to sending a man in space. He was a mean little guy who would often try to bite the workers who put him in the space capsule.
Ham was not really a monkey, but a chimpanzee. The actual year he went into space was 1961.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

best monkey every

Unknown said...

um.. actually there were two monkeys that were sent and one was Able, a rhesus monkey, and the other was Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey. They were sent May 28, 1959 and were the first sucesseful beings to return to Earth.