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.