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Mercury-Atlas 5
Mercury-Atlas 5
was an un-manned
spaceflight
of the
mercury program
. It was launched on
November 29
,
1961
with Enos the chimp aboard. The craft orbited the
Earth
twice and splashed-down off the coast of
Puerto Rico
. Enos was unharmed.