When Ham set off on his space flight in 1961, he paved the way for the first American to go to space months later.

Ham the chimpanzee became the first chimpanzee in space. He successfully performed tasks in microgravity and proved that ...

On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket and became the first hominid to ...

The figure skating community is in mourning after a devastating midair collision claimed the lives of 14 elite skaters, coaches, and family members. This heartbreaking event echoes the tragic 1961 ...

There may be something about Earth’s remote places that root many of humanity’s greatest achievements in space. John Glenn (the first American to orbit the Earth) and Neil Armstrong (the first man ...

In February 1995, a small research organization known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive ...

Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

📅 Today in History: In 1961, NASA launched the Mercury-Redstone 2 spacecraft with a 3-year-old chimpanzee named Ham secured in a seat for the flight, which lasted over 16 minutes and traveled at a ...

An upcoming private space mission will carry the first national astronauts from India, Hungary, and Poland to visit the International Space Station.