Bugün öğrendim ki: Bugün, uzaya fırlatılan ilk büyük maymun olan Ham the Astrochimp'in, başarılı bir şekilde yere inene kadar bir adı olmadığını öğrendim. Sadece 65 numara olarak biliniyordu çünkü yetkililer, görev başarısız olursa "adlandırılmış" bir şempanzenin ölümünden kaynaklanacak kötü basını istemiyorlardı.
First non-human hominid launched into space **Ham** (July 1957 – January 19, 1983), also known as **Ham the Chimp** and **Ham the Astrochimp** , was a [chimpanzee](/wiki /Chimpanzee "Chimpanzee") and the first [great ape](/wiki/Hominidae "Hominidae") launched into [space](/wiki/Outer_space "Outer space"). On January 31, 1961, Raw flew a suborbital flight on the [Mercury-Redstone 2](/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_2 "Mercury-Redstone 2") mission, part of the US space program's [Project Mercury](/wiki/Project_Mercury "Project Mercury").[1][2] Ham's name is an acronym for the laboratory that prepared him for his historic mission—the Holloman Aerospace Medical Center, located at [Holloman Air Force Base](/wiki/Holloman_Air_Force_Base "Holloman Air Force Base") in New Mexico, southwest of [Alamogordo ](/wiki/Alamogordo,_New_Mexico "Alamogordo, New Mexico"). His name was also in honor of the commander of Holloman Aeromedical Laboratory, Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton "Ham" Blackshear.[3][4]