
Pet Garden
Ham
A Memory Realm virtual pet garden honoring Ham, remembered for Spaceflight, NASA, Mercury program.

Why Ham Is Remembered
Ham is remembered for spaceflight, nasa, mercury program. This public page gives visitors a concise starting point for understanding why this chimpanzee remains part of animal, cultural, scientific, or public memory.
The page is designed as an accessible introduction rather than an exhaustive account, with source links and image credits kept visible for further reading.
A Virtual Pet Garden in Memory Realm
This Memory Realm pet garden turns a map reference into a virtual place for discovery. Visitors can move from the public page to the map and then into a 3D pet garden connected to Ham.
The place is part of Memory Realm's virtual layer. It is not a physical marker and does not claim rights, control, access, endorsement, or affiliation connected to a real-world site.
Place Context
Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States is used as a broad spatial reference for this pet garden because it is connected to Ham's story, memory, or public legacy. The location is intentionally city-level or region-level so the page can provide orientation without implying a claim over a specific property or institution.
Historical Context
Ham is pork from a leg cut that has been preserved by wet or dry curing, with or without smoking. As a processed meat, the term ham includes both whole cuts of meat and ones that have been mechanically formed.
Memory Realm presents this context for educational discovery and remembrance, with public source links and media attribution preserved alongside the page content.
Photos

Ham tries out his combination couch and life support system in preparation for his flight in Mercury Redstone-2 (MR-2). The couch is plugged into the circuit that normally would su
NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Ham , a three-year-old chimpanzee , in the spacesuit he would wear for the second Mercury-Redstone (MR-2) suborbital test flight in January, 1961. NASA used chimpanzees and other p
NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center 's Marshall Image Exchange: description , image file, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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A three-year-old chimpanzee , named Ham , in the biopack couch for the MR-2 suborbital test flight. On January 31, 1961, a Mercury-Redstone launch from Cape Canaveral carried the c
NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center 's Marshall Image Exchange: description , image file, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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