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Veterinary Chimp Astronaut 1953

Brig. Gen. Wayne O. Kester, first chief of the Air Force Veterinary Corps, examines a monkey used in biomedical experiments aboard the Aerobee rocket. The AF Veterinary Corps was abolished in 1980. Washington, D.C., March 1953. (Courtesy of DOD)

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