Many suffered injury not a few of them died. Mice, rhesus monkeys, dogs-all sorts of creatures blasted off from the surface of the Earth strapped atop rockets and locked in test planes.
put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon, Americans and Soviets used animals to test the rigors and dangers that humans might face in outer space. Well before the USSR launched the world’s first artificial satellite, in 1957, and obviously long before the U.S.
The pictures in this gallery capture an era when technology, ideology and propaganda converged in an era-defining struggle known as the Space Race. Here, commemorates Ham’s 16-minute suborbital mission with photos taken before, during and after his wild ride. and the Soviet Union and briefly made Ham something of a star. The success of Ham’s flight helped ratchet up even further the already frantic contest for scientific and space supremacy between the U.S. Then the unassuming 37-pound primate went out and made aeronautic history: Aboard a NASA space capsule, traveling thousands of miles an hour almost 160 miles above the Earth, he became the first chimp in space. On the morning of January 31, 1961, in south Florida, a 5-year-old chimpanzee dubbed “Ham” by his handlers ate a breakfast of baby cereal, condensed milk, vitamins and half an egg.
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