chimpanzee named Ham, having been trained, went to space aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket in 1961

Chimpanzees (Ham and Enos)
A chimpanzee named Ham, having been trained, went to space aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket in 1961 to see the space performance of human-like tasks. The chimpanzee proved good at working with levers and all flight switches and was able to show that primates could work under the pressure of spaceflight. Enos orbited the Earth afterward as the first chimp to do so, in the same year.