Chimp&Mice Space Program Was Only A Scam

This story comes from down the road where this man was part of it.

Hance was a laboratory technician and biologist for the program charged with measuring the respiration and analyzing the air supply for the animals as well as studying how much impact mice could sustain from a fall.

You guys probably know all this but it didn't ring any bells for me.

Declassified in 1995 by President Clinton, the Discovery animal launch program was really a cover-up for a spy satellite project code named CORONA, which was designed to take photographs from space to replace the U2 spy plane during the Cold War.  

What kills me about things such as this is that it was close to half a century ago. After the chimp was granted unlimited clandestine powers that continues - use your imagination on the possibilities of what we may have been up to since then and you'll probably not be far off.