History beyond the clouds: 1968 Earthrise photo and lunar landing images are among 600 snaps of space travel through the ages that are set to fetch thousands at auction Earthrise image, taken during NASA s Apollo 8 mission, showed planet as it looked from 240,000 miles away
Collection has been compiled from several unnamed sellers by auctioneers Dreweatts of Newbury, Berkshire
Also seen among the collection is the first man to make it into space, the Soviet Union s Yuri Gagarin
And the first primate to be blasted into space - Ham the chimpanzee - is seen with fear etched into its eyes
A chimp that became a space pioneer
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Today marks the 60th anniversary of the first chimpanzee in space. Not a lot of people know that.
The chimp in question was called Ham not because he was partial to a certain sandwich, but rather an acronym for Holloman Aerospace Medical Center in New Mexico. However, to his handlers he was Chop Chop Chang.
Nasa officially called the chimp No.65 and only recognised it as Ham after the successful completion of the mission. The reasoning was that the public would become upset if an animal with a name died in space, but would be less emotional about a number expiring.
Ham s 16 minutes of fame
Ham s 16 minutes of fame
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On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham became the first hominid in space. During his brief spaceflight, which lasted a little over 16 minutes, Ham experienced weightlessness for around six-and-a-half minutes and proved that human beings could work and live in space. A.S.Ganesh revisits Ham’s claim to fame.
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Ham, still wearing his flying gear, reaches out to accept his reward, a big red apple, after his historic space flight inside the Mercury capsule. | Photo Credit:
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On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham became the first hominid in space. During his brief spaceflight, which lasted a little over 16 minutes, Ham experienced weightlessness for around six-and-a-half minutes and proved that human beings could work and live in space. A.S.Ganesh revisits Ham’s claim to fame.
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What Happened To Muttnik? Here s More About The Siberian Husky Who Was Sent To Space
Animals have been used to aid space research by scientists for decades now, but the Russian dog Laika or Muttnik is one of the most remembered ones.
On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union had left the world shocked when it launched Sputnik 2. Onboard the tiny Russian satellite was a little dog, Laika, the first animal to orbit Earth. According to a recent report in Space.com, Laika was not the first animal in space as the United States and the U.S.S.R. had been putting animals atop rockets since 1947. The American media had dubbed Laika as Muttnik after the name of the satellite Sputnik. However, the Siberian Husky s contribution to human space flight turned out to be immense. In the early days of rocket science, no one knew what the effects of weightlessness would be on humans, hence, animals mainly dogs, monkeys, and chimps were used to test the