chimponaut
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]chimponaut (plural chimponauts)
- A chimpanzee used in a spaceflight programme.
- 1961 December 8, “Science: Meditative Chimponaut”, in Time[1]:
- After two hours of fussing, Enos. the 5½-year-old chimponaut, was ready to ride the first passenger-carrying orbital flight of U.S. Project Mercury.
- 2007, Jon Cohen, “The Endangered Lab Chimp”, in Science, volume 315, number 5811, , page 451:
- But scientists around the world have also performed studies that are now considered bizarre or brutal. The U.S. Air Force’s chimponaut program shot them into space.