[net.space] First Chimp into Space Dies

sjb (01/19/83)

Ham, the chimp that went into space before Alan Shepard, died
yesterday at the North Carolina Zoological Park, where he had
lived for the last 2.5 years.  An autopsy on the chimp, who made
a sub orbital flight aboard a Redstone rocket on 31 January, 1961,
will be performed at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in
Washington, DC.