{"id":16479,"date":"2023-01-31T14:57:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-ape-into-space\/"},"modified":"2023-01-31T14:57:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:57:34","slug":"first-ape-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-ape-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"First Ape into Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-653\" title=\"Ham the Chimp\" alt=\"Ham the Chimp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/d8d7b__rsz_6100114-300x228.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/rsz_6100114-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/rsz_6100114.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>January 31, 1961<\/p>\n<p>50 years ago today,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ham_the_Chimp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ham the Chimp<\/a> travels into <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outer space<\/a> aboard\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercury-Redstone_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercury-Redstone 2<\/a>. Ham (whom was named this only after he survived the flight) was the first ape to fly into space. Note that apes include chimpanzees, gorillas, and humans, but NOT monkeys.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/31\/first-ape-into-space\/\">First Ape into Space<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/31\/first-ape-into-space\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 31, 1961 50 years ago today,\u00a0Ham the Chimp travels into outer space aboard\u00a0Mercury-Redstone 2. Ham (whom was named this only after he survived the flight) was the first ape to fly into space. Note that apes include chimpanzees, gorillas, and humans, but NOT monkeys. First Ape into Space is original content of This Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[399,248,1509],"class_list":["post-16479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-first","tag-into","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}