Onboard camera, Mercury-Redstone 2 spacecraft Ham during his sub-orbital flight 19 January 1961 Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper, 15 x 15 cm (5¾ x 5¾ in), with "Svenska Dagbladets" archival stamps , pencil marks and newspaper clipping on the verso Footnotes: Ham was trained at Holloman AeroMedical Research Laboratories and before the mission was known as "Number 65". The name, an acronym of the research facility, was given to him after the completion of the mission. Ham responded very well to training and became the first primate to survive a 16-minute and 39-second sub-orbital flight. During the flight Ham performed all his tasks up to his training expectations.
Onboard camera, Mercury-Redstone 2 spacecraft Ham during his sub-orbital flight 19 January 1961 Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper, 15 x 15 cm (5¾ x 5¾ in), with "Svenska Dagbladets" archival stamps , pencil marks and newspaper clipping on the verso Footnotes: Ham was trained at Holloman AeroMedical Research Laboratories and before the mission was known as "Number 65". The name, an acronym of the research facility, was given to him after the completion of the mission. Ham responded very well to training and became the first primate to survive a 16-minute and 39-second sub-orbital flight. During the flight Ham performed all his tasks up to his training expectations.
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