The original Mercury space capsule had no window, a hatch with 70 bolts that had to be removed from outside, and zilch for the astronaut to do except endure g-forces, hope nothing went wrong, and ...

Most adults like to think there's still a little 6-year-old inside them. Well, mine isn't talking to me anymore, not since I took him to "Space Chimps." C'mon: Space? Chimps? I thought he'd relate.

Ham the chimp launched into space before he spent some of his retirement years in North Carolina. NASA A pioneering chimpanzee went into space for NASA — then retired to North Carolina 44 years ago.

’Space Chimps’ characters from left: Comet, Luna, Ham III, Titan and Houston. If you’re old enough to read this review, you aren’t the target audience for “Space Chimps,” a movie about chimpanzees ...