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Apes, robots and men: The life and death of the first space chimp

Submit on Sunday, February 7th, 2021 12:45

On January 31, 1961, an intrepid chimpanzee called Ham was launched on a rocket from Cape Canaveral in the United States, and returned to Earth alive. In this process, he became the first hominin in space.

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