Ham was the eighty-sixth living creature shot into the space by U.S. scientists. Before him, rockets
had taken up sixty-six mice, two frogs, two rabbits, eleven dogs, 11 four monkeys. Even the mice
were 12 in small space suits. All were fitted 13 recording machines that told how their journeys in
14 bad affected them.
But Ham's 15 was the most important. The chimpanzee's (黑猩猩) would tell the most 16 how a
human astronaunt might react in space. And Ham had been especially trained to 17 all the actions that
would make a 18 of how a clever creature would 19 in space. He had been trained for all the things
he might 12 to on the flight-dimlight (昏暗的光线), great noise, greater speed.