NASA's First Chimp in Space

NASA is preparing to send a chimpanzee, Ham, into space to test the effects of space on a living creature. He’s received a training regiment to prepare him for the mission ahead.

[_rez]

some people don't know that he got depressed when he got back, they sent him to a zoo where he lived there for 17 years, he sadly died alone

[Herb-buwz]

Just an observation, which is he was a child. Imagine how terrified he was.

[GrzlyBore]

Well? Did they get a human in space? I hate cliffhangers.

[cbwavy]

His heart rate shot right up. I'm sure that was a confusing and scary experience for him. I hope he was treated well afterwards.

[StuSaville]

Imagine the poor Chimp Astronaut's surprise when he returned to discover that humans had taken over the planet...

[WokeDEMOCRATShaveASPD]

From the jungle to a freakin ROCKET GOING TO SPACE!

[Dafastso]

>be chimp
>swing from branches for 20, 000 years
>meet human
>become astronaut, successfully test first nasa rocket mission

[thebigsad]

Huge respect to NASA for bringing him back

[shaneo]

And the little fella still pushed all his buttons and pulled all his levers

[suzyQ]

What happened to Ham after this? A life of luxury or a necropsy to see internal effects? Or life in a cage?
Seriously, what did happen to Ham?

[alanschulz]

At the end the narrator said the chimp was lucky. This chimp's situation was unfortunate, to say the least.

[thebigsad]

Sadly Laika wasn't that lucky. But let's not forget her legacy. A street dog that opened the road to human-involved space exploration

[BassGuitarGuy]

This video didn't give an adequate description of this mission. There was no mention that Mercury's emergency abort system fired due to the Redstone deviating too many degrees from its intended trajectory, which was the result of a hot engine burning fuel faster than nominal. Then the retrorockets cut off sooner than planned, causing Ham to pull 15 gs on the way down and travel over 5, 800 mph (1, 400 mph faster than expected), ultimately splashing down over 130 miles where the capsule was supposed to. To top it all off, the heat shield punctured holes in the capsule's bulkhead, causing it to take on water and capsize.

Ham bit anything he could reach afterwards.

[thetravelingsteampunkkitty]

They gave him an apple for all the trouble?! Cruel way to put it

[haeziqhashla]

Then they left him in the zoo alone for the next 17 years😢

[kinoeclux]

For some people that think that ham died in Impact there were barrier which stopped the interaction between ham and the hard metal

[leenaright]

Dont send an innocent animal... send a death row resident instead.

[jamesdooling]

Interesting. Sad. Necessary. Surely terrifying.

[bpdubb]

God bless his little heart. Thing was most likely terrified out of his mind.  I'm not a hippy by any means, but man I couldn't imagine what was going through that littles guys mind. I'm sure there were plenty of humans or mental patients back in those days that would of volunteered they could of sent up.

[MECELsVlog]

Did the parents of this child gave consent to nasa?