In January 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham was strapped into a Mercury capsule and launched on a suborbital arc that overshot its target by roughly 240 kilometres, and when the hatch was opened aboard...
On 31 January 1961, a chimpanzee about three years and eight months old rode Mercury-Redstone 2 to an altitude of roughly 252 kilometres, endured a peak launch load of 17 g, and landed about 241 kilom... 
