Status
Suborbital
Success
Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2)
Launch Time
Tue Jan 31, 1961 16:55 UTC
Tue Jan 31, 1961 16:55 UTC
Rocket
Mission Details
Mercury-Redstone 2
Mercury spacecraft No. 5 carried a chimpanzee named Ham on a suborbital flight, landing in the Atlantic Ocean 16 minutes and 39 seconds after launch.
Payloads: 1
Suborbital
Location
LC-5, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
Mercury-Redstone
3rd mission
1st mission of 1961
2nd successful mission
2nd consecutive successful mission