From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb Newsgroups: net.space Title: First Chimp into Space Dies Article-I.D.: alice.1406 Posted: Tue Jan 18 20:00:32 1983 Received: Fri Jan 21 01:17:09 1983 Ham, the chimp that went into space before Alan Shepard, died yesterday at the North Carolina Zoological Park, where he had lived for the last 2.5 years. An autopsy on the chimp, who made a sub orbital flight aboard a Redstone rocket on 31 January, 1961, will be performed at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC.