{"id":6732,"date":"2014-03-03T05:42:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T05:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6732"},"modified":"2014-03-03T05:42:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T05:42:26","slug":"michael-shinabery-enos-the-chimp-and-his-two-orbits-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6732","title":{"rendered":"Michael Shinabery: Enos the chimp and his two orbits in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moonandback.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moonandback<\/a>\u00a0posts another two part space history report from\u00a0\u00a0Michael Shinabery. This one is about America&#8217;s first primate astronauts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moonandback.com\/2014\/02\/23\/chimps-fly-first-in-mercury-program-this-week-in-space-history\/\" target=\"_d\">Chimps Fly First in Mercury Program\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moonandback.com\/2014\/03\/02\/enos-performs-well-this-week-in-space-history\/\" target=\"_d\">Enos Performs Well<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cEnos was a good chimp. He was smart but he didn\u2019t take to people,\u201d Ed Dittmer, who trained\u00a0primates at the Aero Medical facility at Holloman Air Force Base, said in a 1987 oral history. \u201cA lot of people had the wrong impression of Enos. They said he was a mean chimp and so forth, but he wasn\u2019t really mean. He just didn\u2019t take to cuddling.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Enos\u2019 two-orbit flight was a major accomplishment in the Cold War-era Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moonandback\u00a0posts another two part space history report from\u00a0\u00a0Michael Shinabery. This one is about America&#8217;s first primate astronauts: Chimps Fly First in Mercury Program\u00a0 Enos Performs Well \u201cEnos was a good chimp. He was smart but he didn\u2019t take to people,\u201d Ed Dittmer, who trained\u00a0primates at the Aero Medical facility at Holloman Air Force Base, said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6732\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michael Shinabery: Enos the chimp and his two orbits in space<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-spaceflight-parabolic-flight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1KA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6831,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6831","url_meta":{"origin":6732,"position":0},"title":"Yuri Gagarin&#8217;s space flight","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Yuri Gagarin\u00a0was born 80 years ago today.\u00a0Michael Shinabery opens a two part report on Gagarin's famous flight to space:\u00a0Soviets Sketchy on Details While Sending First Man into Space - Moonandback\u00a0- Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin\u2019s capsule on display in a museum at Rocket and Space Corporation Energia.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;History&quot;","block_context":{"text":"History","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin\u2019s capsule on display in a museum at Rocket and Space Corporation Energia.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonandback.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gagarin-Swallow-view2-400x587.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":23459,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=23459","url_meta":{"origin":6732,"position":1},"title":"Videos: &#8220;Space to Ground&#8221; + Other ISS reports &#8211; Jan.22.2021","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 22, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the latest episode in NASA's Space to Ground weekly report on activities related to the International Space Station: https:\/\/youtu.be\/_6Jm2JUD5hM ** Expedition 64 U S Spacewalks 69 and 70 Preview Briefing - January 22, 2021 - NASA The Expedition 64 Spacewalk Briefing took place at 3 p.m. EDT Friday,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;In Space Infrastructure&quot;","block_context":{"text":"In Space Infrastructure","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=15"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bigelow-xbase-_20160808-001-300x232.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13735,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13735","url_meta":{"origin":6732,"position":2},"title":"&#8216;Space Cups&#8217; designed for drinking in micro-g now available for purchase","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The new company\u00a0Spaceware\u00a0uses 3D printing to make terrestrial versions of the \"space cup\", which astronaut\u00a0Don Petit first created while on the International Space Station in 2008. 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