Describes the role played by the chimpanzee, Ham, in developing manned space flight in the U.S.

From Cameroon to the moon, This is the true story of a young chimpanzee Who becomes the world’s first and most Celebrated Astrochimp! Hams’s 16 minute Flight in January 1961 immediately paved the way of human space flight. This story is exciting, nail-biting and Triumphant. Follow the adventures of Ham as Her successfully goes from tree-tops to astrochimp Training and discovers that life can bring unexpected Adventures. Ham’s message is to embrace change and Thrive: “Don’t be afraid. Life’s a parade. Your Adventures are waiting for you!”

This book is as a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history of animal space flights carried out by all nations, but principally the United States and the Soviet Union. It explores the ways in which animal high-altitude and space flight research impacted on space flight biomedicine and technology, and how the results - both successful and disappointing - allowed human beings to then undertake that same hazardous journey with far greater understanding and confidence. This complete and authoritative book will undoubtedly become the ultimate authority on animal space flights.

After repeatedly disastrous efforts to get himself out of trouble, George ends up being the first monkey in space.

Inevitably, there are times in a nation’s history when its hopes, fears and confidence in its own destiny appear to hinge on the fate of a single person. One of these pivotal moments occurred on the early morning of May 5, 1961, when a 37-year-old test pilot squeezed himself into the confines of the tiny Mercury spacecraft that he had named Freedom 7. On that historic day, U.S. Navy Commander Alan Shepard carried with him the hopes, prayers, and anxieties of a nation as his Redstone rocket blasted free of the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, hurling him upwards on a 15-minute suborbital flight that also propelled the United States into the bold new frontier of human space exploration. This book tells the enthralling story of that pioeering flight as recalled by many of the participants in the Freedom 7 story, including Shepard himself, with anecdotal details and tales never before revealed in print. Although beaten into space just three weeks earlier by the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard’s history-making mission aboard Freedom 7 nevertheless provided America’s first tentative step into space that would one day see its Apollo astronauts – including Alan Shepard – walk on the Moon.

Describes the life of the chimpanzee that was sent into space as part of the American space program, describing his capture, training, the actual flight, and his life afterwards.