Enos the chimp in a flight couch, about to make his space flight from
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Mercury-Atlas 5 was a unmanned spaceflight of the Mercury program. It
was launched with a 5 1/2 year old chimpanzee named Enos aboard. The
craft orbited the Earth twice and splashed down about 200 miles south of
Bermuda.
J. Cool here to say, I’ll bet they had to interview a lot of chimps before they found one that would stick to the business at hand and not want to monkey around all of the time!