Chimpanzee Space Couch 3D Animation

Creator

Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information

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Publication Date

2022

Abstract

A Chimpanzee named Ham was secured in a flight couch just like this one and placed in a Mercury space capsule attached to a Redstone rocket. Ham, an acronym for Holloman Aerospace Medicine, was the first chimpanzee in space, completing a sub-orbital flight on January 31, 1961. Primates were used as a surrogate for humans, testing impacts from noise, acceleration, vibration, re-entry, and zero gravity before crewed flights were undertaken. This couch, and information on primates in space, is part of a display at the Air Force Space and Missile Museum at Launch Complex 26, Cape Canaveral, Florida. For more on Ham- his life and death- see: https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/mercury-primate-capsule-and-ham-astrochimp see also: https://www.theguardian.com/science/animal-magic/2013/dec/16/ham-chimpanzee-hero-or-victim

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Keywords

Museums, Primates, Animation 3D, Cape Canaveral, Space history, Animated, SLD 45

Extent

1 3-D Model

Recommended Citation

Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information, "Chimpanzee Space Couch 3D Animation" (2022). Cape Canaveral Space Force Station – 3D Historic Launch Complexes. 14.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cdhgi_cape_canaveral_3d/14