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Astrochimp’s 1961 Bermuda Splashdown
Chimpanzees are the forgotten link in America’s manned space programme — with the first, simian-piloted US space capsule to orbit the earth splashing down off Bermuda 50 years ago today [Nov. 29]. When the space programme was in its infancy in the early 1960s, the US National Aeronautics & Space Administration used chimps to test how... Read more of this article
Bermuda: ‘Unsung Heroes’ of Space Race
Bermuda’s NASA tracking station, at the end of Mercury Road on Cooper’s Island, adjacent to Clearwater Park, lies abandoned now, most of the facilities dismantled. But Cooper’s Island still retains signs from its heyday which began with the US/Soviet “space race” and ended after a 1997 space shuttle innovation rendered the station... Read more of this article
49 Yrs Ago: Chimp’s Space Trip Ends in BDA
Enos, NASA’s pioneering space chimp, splashed down off Bermuda 49 years ago today [Nov 29] after orbiting the earth twice and was brought to the island’s US Kindley Air Force Base to recuperate — paving the way for the manned orbital missions of the celebrated Mercury astronauts. Though they arguably were better at their jobs than... Read more of this article
