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On January 31, 1961, an intrepid chimpanzee called Ham was launched on a rocket from Cape Canaveral in the United States, and returned to Earth alive.

On January 31, 1961, an intrepid chimpanzee called Ham was launched on a rocket from Cape Canaveral in the United States, and returned to Earth alive. In this process, he became the first hominin in space. In the 1950s, it was unclear whether humans could survive outside Earth – both physically and mentally. The science fiction writer and warfare expert Cordwainer Smith wrote about the psychological pain of being in space. Plants, insects and animals had been taken to high altitudes in balloons and rockets since the 18th century. The Soviet Union sent the dog Laika into orbit on Sputnik 2 i...

Happy Holidays From New Mexico Museum Of Space History The New Mexico Museum of Space History (NMMSH) in Alamogordo wishes everyone happy holidays. The museum is a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, under the leadership of the Governor’s Commission to the New Mexico Museum of Space History. Programs and exhibits are supported by the International Space Hall of Fame Foundation through the generous support of donors. Dedicated Oct. 5, 1976, as the International Space Hall of Fame, the New Mexico Museum of Space History’s mission is to inspire and educate, to promot...

The San Diego Air & Space Museum is honoring the innovation, engineering, technology, and aviation excellence displayed by Orville and Wilbur Wright by running an exact replica of the engine they developed to invent powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on Dec. 17, 1903, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, at 10 a.m. Pacific time. The running of the Wright Brothers’ engine on Dec. 17 will be exactly 117 years to the day the Wrights made the first powered flight in history. The Wright Brothers were inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum as p...

By KYLE ARNOLD | The Dallas Morning News | Published: December 12, 2020 DALLAS (Tribune News Service) — Retired Southwest Airlines pilot Tammie Jo Shults has taken her place next to some of the giants of human flight, including Buzz Aldrin, Charles Lindbergh and Howard Hughes, after being inducted Thursday into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame in San Diego. Shults, who was a female pioneer as a U.S. Navy pilot, is best known as the captain piloting Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 in April 2018 when a piece of fan blade broke off, tore apart the engine and broke out a window in th...