Tuesday, February 1, 2011
The first Longhorn in space
Sam, a Rhesus monkey, was launched on Dec. 4, 1959. He and Miss Sam, launched a month later, were trained at The University of Texas at Austin. Photo by NASA.
The 50th anniversary of the first primate shot into space by Americans was this week.
On Jan. 31, 1961, Ham, a chimpanzee, was launched 160 miles above the Earth. The chimp became something of a celebrity after a photo spread in Life magazine immortalized his flight.
The University of Texas at Austin didn’t have
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