How many Monkey's died in testing the early Mercury RedStone rockets that Alan Shepard used to make his first?

Question

trip into low earth orbit?

Answer 1

All I know is that the monkey that actually flew into space had died after a short period of time after returning.

Answer 2

None, I believe.

Answer 3

None. Only one chimp flew a Mercury Redstone, and that was Ham. He survived, though he was not happy about the flight after a malfunction caused his capsule to be pulled away by the escape rocket, subjecting him to far higher G forces than the planned flight.

It was this malfunction, incidentally, that led to Shepard missing out on the title of first man in space. Because the Redstone group under Wernher von Braun wanted another test to avoid that malfunction, Shepard's flight was slipped from March 1961 to May 1961. Gagarin went up in April.

Answer 4

Certainly fewer than researchers have killed analyzing head concussions and disease research.