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- The United States and other countries experimented with sending small animals like mice and flies up to space before graduating to primates—with the ultimate goal of understanding how space travel would affect humans. After several failed missions, Miss Baker came on the scene in 1959, accompanied by a rhesus monkey named Able.
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Miss Baker (1957 – November 29, 1984) was a squirrel monkey who in 1959 became, along with female rhesus macaque Able, one of the first two animals launched into space by the United States who safely returned.
May 27, 2016 · Miss Baker - monkeynaut, became the first US animal to fly into space and return safely May 28, 1959. This is the story of her life after that historic flight.
May 28, 2019 · But Able and Baker survived their predawn flight and were fished out of the Caribbean safely, and with two live monkeys in hand, the government's spin machine whipped into overdrive.
On May 28, 1959, aboard the JUPITER AM-18, Miss Able, a rhesus macaque, and Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey from Peru, flew a successful mission. Able was born at the Ralph Mitchell Zoo in Independence, Kansas.
May 29, 2009 · Baker, a squirrel monkey, perches on a model of the Jupiter missile that launched her into space on a sub-orbital flight, along with a rhesus monkey named Able, on May 28, 1959 - fifty years ago.
Aug 31, 2009 · The first monkeys to survive the flight into space were two monkeys named Able and Miss Baker. They flew to a height of 360 miles (580 km) on May 28, 1959 aboard a Jupiter rocket.
Nov 3, 2014 · The little space monkey died on the operating table, giving Miss Baker the bittersweet title of sole survivor. The sassy squirrel monkey went on to live a long and cushy life.
