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Jan 15, 2016 · Able, a female rhesus monkey, and Baker, a female squirrel monkey, were launched into space by the US on a Jupiter missile. The monkeys were not the first living creatures to be sent on a...
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Dec 14, 2022 · When businessman Franklin Baker began supplying flour to Cuban merchants, it seemed like he’d landed the worst business deal in history. Forget dollars and cents, the Cubans paid him with a boatload of coconuts.
Jul 27, 2013 · Space monkeys Able and Baker were the first animals to reach outer space and return to earth safely. They became media stars.
May 28, 2009 · On May 28th, 1959, one rhesus monkey, named Able, and one squirrel monkey named Miss Baker became the first “astronauts” to survive a return flight into space.
Fifty years ago, two girls, Able and Baker, went to space. After their brief spaceflight on May 28, 1959, the two pioneers were hailed as heroes and made the cover of LIFE, which lauded them as America's Space Travelers.
May 28, 2009 · Able and Baker were certainly the first adorable animals to survive spaceflight, but the claim to being the first living creature to make a round trip journey belong to fruit flies, sent packing along with a sample of corn seeds in 1947 to test the effects of radiation at high altitude.
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Two monkeys have become the first living creatures to survive a space flight. Able, a seven-pound female rhesus monkey, and Baker, a one-pound female squirrel monkey, were fired 300 miles into...
