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Technology Documentary narrated by Jeffrey Schaeffer and published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Natural World series in 2008 - English narration 

January 31, 1961: a Mercury rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral. The astronaut on board is a three-year-old chimpanzee named Ham. The young chimp is shot into the stratosphere before splashing back down in the Atlantic Ocean. He is thus the first 'earthling' to come back alive from space.

This drama tells the famous chimp's remarkable story, based on reconstructions of events surrounding the mission and footage shot by NASA at the time. 

~49 minuten, Engels gesproken, geen ondertiteling.