Almanac: Space chimp
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Fifty-five years ago today a chimpanzee traveled where no man had gone before, when NASA loaded Ham the chimp into a Mercury capsule for a trial run ahead of America's first manned space mission. Charles Osgood reports.
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Good history from sending a monkey to do a man's job!
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