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Mercury Project

Ham, a three-year-old chimpanzee, in the spacesuit he would wear for the second Mercury- Redstone (MR-2) suborbital test flight in January, 1961. NASA used chimpanzees and other primates to test the Mercury capsule before launching the fisrt American astronaut, Alan Shepard, in May 1961. The Mercury capsule rode atop a modified Redstone rocket, developed by Dr. Wernher von Braun and the German Rocket Team in Huntsville, Alabama.

Date
1961-01-01
Collection
MSFC
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"Mercury Project" (1961-01-01). NASA/MSFC. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/9801835

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