Is he a hero or a victim of the 20th Century Space Race — Ham, the Astrochimp, was a 3-year-old chimpanzee when he rocketed into space on January 31, 1961, in the U.S. space program’s Mercury Redstone Rocket. Ham was the first great ape that was sent to the space: where no man has gone before. Born in July 1957 in French Cameroon, ‘Ham,’…