NASA Photo ID: S61-00199 File Name: 10073433.jpg
Film Type: 4x5 BW Date Taken: 01/31/61
Title: Recovery of Mercury spacecraft and chimpanzee Ham after MR-2 flight
Description:
Recovery personnel aboard the U.S.S. Donner remove Ham, a 37 pound
chimpanzee, from a Mercury spacecraft following the successful
Mercury-Redstone 2 suborbital flight from Cape Canveral, Florida.
Subject terms:
ANIMALS
FLORIDA
MERCURY MR-2 FLIGHT
MERCURY SPACECRAFT
MONKEYS
PERSONNEL
SHIPS
SPACECRAFT RECOVERY
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