Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
7.3
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2129
Points per Word
0.000235
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
On January 31, 1961, a three-year-old chimpanzee named Ham made history by becoming the first intelligent being to ride an American rocket into suborbital space.