Incredible video offer rare glimpse into the lives of chimps and monkeys Nasa sent into space

NEW video and pictures of monkeys being sent into space by NASA at the start of the space race has emerged.

A video created by NASA in January 1961 shows Ham, a chimpanzee who was trained to operate certain levers while in a space-bound rocket, being strapped into a special bio-pack couch before being blasted into space.