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Voluminous records of the flight proved that Ham had performed magnificently. In spite of fearful acceleration forces (up to 18 Gs) and weightlessness that lasted seven minutes, he had worked his light-and-lever system without a single error, never getting a shock...
...Benson. "He's talking to us!" Soon the chimp chamber was on the deck. No. 65 grinned and shook hands with Major Benson. Then he was rushed to the Donner's battle dressing station for a physical exam. Pronounced healthy, he was then officially given the name Ham...
What was accomplished by Ham's flight? Certainly, Project Mercury had taken a considerable forward step. The monkeys, dogs and other animals previously brought down from space performed no mental tasks; they merely survived. Ham proved that a central nervous system much like the human brain can do a trained-in task under space conditions...
...Ham's flight was watched by the human astronauts who have been selected to ride in Project Mercury's spacecraft. If it had been completely successful, one of them would have been scheduled to take a similar ride in a few months. But the erratic launching behavior, the loss of retrorockets and heat shield, and the seepage of sea water into the capsule will almost surely persuade NASA to use more chimps before risking...
Just two hours after Ham the chimp began his pioneering trip through space, another U.S. missile, bearing an earth satellite, was launched from Point Arguello Naval Missile Facility, 170 miles northwest of Los Angeles. It was an Air Force Samos (from Satellite and Missile Observation System), and it went into an almost perfectly circular polar orbit 300-350 miles above the earth...