The MR-2 craft will carrya chimpanzee, specially trained for the missionat Holloman Air...
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The MR-2 craft will carry
a chimpanzee, specially trained for the mission
at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The chimpanzees were kidnapped
in West Africa and they were trained to ride
in the Mercury capsule. And the training was really quite complex and started as soon as
astronaut training began. They even did some reading of a console,
the instrument panel. They were given symbols,
such as two circles and one triangle and they had to hit the triangle, the odd symbol,
in order not to get a shock. The next decision,
which chimpanzee to send on the flight. Each of the candidates gets
a complete medical checkup. And the honor goes to an astrochimp
who was nicknamed, "Ham."
a chimpanzee, specially trained for the mission
at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The chimpanzees were kidnapped
in West Africa and they were trained to ride
in the Mercury capsule. And the training was really quite complex and started as soon as
astronaut training began. They even did some reading of a console,
the instrument panel. They were given symbols,
such as two circles and one triangle and they had to hit the triangle, the odd symbol,
in order not to get a shock. The next decision,
which chimpanzee to send on the flight. Each of the candidates gets
a complete medical checkup. And the honor goes to an astrochimp
who was nicknamed, "Ham."
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The MR-2 craft will carry
a chimpanzee,
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specially trained for the mission
at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
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The chimpanzees were kidnapped
in West Africa
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and they were trained to ride
in the Mercury capsule.
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And the training was really quite complex
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and started as soon as
astronaut training began.
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They even did some reading of a console,
the instrument panel.
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They were given symbols,
such as two circles and one triangle
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and they had to hit the triangle,
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the odd symbol,
in order not to get a shock.
00:00:33.998 --> 00:00:36.911
The next decision,
which chimpanzee to send on the flight.
00:00:37.995 --> 00:00:40.079
Each of the candidates gets
a complete medical checkup.
00:00:41.457 --> 00:00:47.001
And the honor goes to an astrochimp
who was nicknamed, "Ham."
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Movie Summary
Follow the story of the first American astronauts in space in this National Geographic documentary.
