Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Ham the astrochimp after his historic 1961 suborbital flight. Personalized ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The original Mercury space capsule had no window, a hatch with 70 bolts that had to be removed from outside, and zilch for the ...

Yesterday, it was announced that David Walliams would write his first comic book, Astrochimp, drawn by Adam Stower, from HarperCollins Children's Books, telling us, "Chump the chimpanzee was always ...

Ham, a chimpanzee trained by the US Air Force, was the first great ape in space. He proved primates could perform complex ...

HarperCollins Children’s Books has announced Astrochimp, a “wildly funny, action-packed” space adventure from David Walliams, marking the author’s debut into comic strip fiction. The book features ...

HarperCollins Children’s Books has announced Astrochimp, a "wildly funny, action-packed" space adventure from David Walliams, marking the author’s debut into comic strip fiction. The book features ...

The real hero of the early American space programme was Ham the "astrochimp", who went up before any of the first American Mercury astronauts (India plans £1.7bn manned space mission by 2015, 24 ...

Chimpanzees are the forgotten link in America’s manned space programme — with the first, simian-piloted US space capsule to orbit the earth splashing down off Bermuda 50 years ago today [Nov. 29].

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