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Enos became the first chimpanzee to orbit Earth, following a prior space mission by another famous chimp, Ham, who had flown a suborbital flight earlier that year. Enos’s mission, known as Mercury-Atlas 5, was part of NASA’s efforts to ensure that human astronauts could safely survive the challenges of spaceflight