The Real Primates Behind the Story of Pogo in ‘The Umbrella Academy’

The latest season of this Netflix series spins an idealized story of the primates who were forced to be space flight test subjects

Arabella Breck
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4 min readAug 19, 2020

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an archival photo of scientists in lab coats and scrubs surrounding a juvenile chimpanzee strapped into a rocket
Ham, a three-year-old chimpanzee, prepares for a test flight with researchers at Cape Canaveral. Photo: NASA

Spoilers for Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy ahead…

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Arabella Breck
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queer writer + editor from the southwest, living in the midwest.