Astrochimp Ham drawing
by Murphy Art Elliott
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Title
Astrochimp Ham drawing
Artist
Murphy Art Elliott
Medium
Drawing - Pencil On Paper
Description
A pencil drawing of "Ham" the Astrochimpanzee by Murphy Elliott
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Ham
Ham in January 1961, before his flight into space
Species
Common chimpanzee
Sex
Male
Born
1957
French Cameroons
Died
January 19, 1983 (aged 25–26)
North Carolina Zoo, North Carolina, U.S.A
Known for
First hominid in space
Ham (1957 – January 19, 1983), also known as Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp, was a chimpanzee and the first hominid launched into space. On January 31, 1961, Ham flew on the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission, part of the U.S. space program's 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 in New Mexico, southwest of Alamogordo. His name was also in honor of the commander of Holloman Aeromedical Laboratory, Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton "Ham" Blackshear
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