NASA Marks 50th Anniversary Of Monkeys In Space

Florida Alabama Able and Miss Baker were lofted from Cape Canaveral on May 28 1959 in the nose cone of an Army Jupiter missile. They traveled 360 miles into space during the 16-minute mission.
by The Associated Press
Published: Fri, May 29, 2009 - 10:17 am CST Last Updated: Fri, May 29, 2009 - 10:19 am CST
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - America's space program has marked the
50th anniversary of the space flight taken by two monkeys - one of
them buried at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville.
Able and Miss Baker, known as "the monkeynauts," were lofted
from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on May 28, 1959, in the nose cone of an
Army Jupiter missile. They traveled 360 miles into space during the
16-minute mission.
Abel, an American rhesus monkey, died four days after the flight
because of an allergic reaction to an anesthetic. But Miss Baker, a
South American squirrel monkey, became a featured attraction at the
rocket center in Huntsville.
She died of kidney failure on Nov. 29, 1984, at age 27.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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ickthus
ickthus Says:
Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:53 pm

the time of the moon landing i should say.

ickthus
ickthus Says:
Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:52 pm

richard pryor use to talk about two monkeys. i don’t remember if he said they had names. that album came out around that time.

Mike x51
Mike x51 Says:
Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:23 pm

awwww

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