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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thilzz" data-source="post: 4832144" data-attributes="member: 103868"><img src="http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd350/thilzz/6-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham--seen above with his trainer at Cape Canaveral, Florida--became the first of his species to make it to space, reaching an altitude of 115 miles (185 kilometers) and a top speed of 4,400 miles (7,080 kilometers) an hour. He splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after a 16.5-minute flight. <img src="http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd350/thilzz/7-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> U.S. Air Force Maj. Richard Benson (left) examines Ham the chimpanzee on January 31, 1961, after the ape attained suborbital spaceflight aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket. The animal was found to be fatigued and dehydrated but otherwise healthy. Nine months later another chimp, Enos, became the first chimp to orbit Earth, setting the stage for the first U.S. human orbital spaceflight in 1962. <img src="http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd350/thilzz/8-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The French space program also used test animals, including the trio of monkeys seen above in 1967.  The French were the first to send a feline into space. Felix the cat launched on October 18, 1963, aboard a Veronique AGI sounding rocket. He was retrieved alive after his parachute descent.        <img src="http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd350/thilzz/9-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> A macaque named Lapik peaks out from inside a capsule after a two-week flight during the Russia-France-U.S. joint Bion 11 mission. The flight landed safely in Kazakhstan in January 1997. Lapik and another macaque, named Multik, were part of a project to study weightlessness. Multik died shortly after landing during a post-mission medical exam. | | | | Although humans have been making space voyages since 1961, animals have continued to play a role in international space tests. In addition to monkeys, animals that have gone into space in the name of science include dogs, cats, fruit flies, rabbits, turtles, spiders, jellyfish, and amoebas. <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/space-monkeys-fifty-years/index.html" target="_blank">SPACE MONKEY PICTURES: 50-Year Anniversary</a> </blockquote>

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