Ham the Chimp in Space : Story about Brave Astrochimp Ham in 1961
Ham the Chimp was born in Cameroon in 1957 and was taken from his home by trappers to the now-defunct Miami Rare Bird Farm in Florida. That’s where the US Air Force bought him in 1959 for $457. Ham was stationed at the Holloman Aerospace Medical Center in New Mexico, where he would train for…