Miss Baker was a squirrel monkey who made U.S. space history. On May 28, 1959, she and a rhesus macaque named Able were launched on a Jupiter rocket and safely recovered after a brief suborbital flight. Miss Baker went on to live at public facilities, becoming a minor celebrity. She died in 1984 at age 27, a record age for squirrel monkeys at the time. She is buried at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where visitors still leave bananas on her headstone. Her flight helped de
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On May 28, 1959, history was made when two monkeys, Able and Baker, became the first primates to survive spaceflight. Launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a Jupiter missile, these brave monkeynauts soared 360 miles above Earth, experiencing weightlessness for nine minutes before safely splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean. This mission provided critical data for human space exploration. Sadly, Able died a few days later from a surgical complication, but Baker lived until 1984, becoming
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