[Leica] IMG: WayBack Week 25 (chimping)

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

If I have the right stuff in remembering "The Right Stuff" and other  
Project Mercury history, Ham the astrochimp was not popular among the  
other astronauts. The humans thought him unworthy of his early flight  
in the novice capsule.

Ham never got a shot at Gemini or Apollo like so many of the super  
seven.

I don't know how it came to be, but Ham lived out his retirement and  
senior years at the North Carolina Zoo, a new facility at the time  
and innovative in terms of reasonably natural habitat.

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Ric Carter
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