Mercury-Atlas 5 was 'n Amerikaanse ruimtevlug wat deel was van die Mercury-program.
Die ruimtetuig is op 29 November 1961 by Kaap Canaveral gelanseer met die sjimpansee genaamd "Enos" aanboord. Die ruimtetuig het twee keer om die Aarde gewentel en ongeveer 320 km suid van Bermuda in die water geplons. Enos was die eerste primaat van Amerika en die derde van die groot ape wat om die Aarde gewentel het.
This article uses material from the Wikipedia Afrikaans article Mercury-Atlas 5, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Inhoud is onderhewig aan CC BY-SA 4.0, tensy anders vermeld. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
®Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wiki Foundation, Inc. Wiki Afrikaans (DUHOCTRUNGQUOC.VN) is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wiki Foundation.