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

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

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

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 ...

At age 27 on the morning of 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was helped into his spacesuit and made his way to the ...

On this date, President John F. Kennedy provides NASA with its strongest advocate for large space telescopes, James Webb ...

Image of Shackleton Crater, a permanently shadowed region near the lunar south pole, shows slevation (left) and shaded relief ...

It was the first time American astronauts were killed in flight, spanning 56 manned missions that began in 1961. On Tuesday ... knew immediately that something was wrong. Moments later, NASA ...

The New Shepard launch is scheduled for Tuesday, January 28 at 11 am EST / 10 am local time at Blue Origin’s Test Site One, ...

On Jan. 25, 2004, NASA’s Opportunity rover landed on Mars and sent its first pictures of the planet to Earth; originally planned as a 90-day mission, the rover remained operational for over 15 years, ...