60 years ago, a space chimpanzee made history — and left a dark legacy – Inverse

In terms of the
human family, as most broadly defined, the first three to orbit around Earth were Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov and American astronaut Enos.
That is, Enos the Chimpanzee, who was launched into orbit in a Mercury capsule…

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