Squirrel monkey launch capsule. Bio-pack capsule containing a female squirrel monkey (named Baker) to be launched into space. Baker, along with a rhes
Squirrel monkey launch capsule. Bio-pack capsule containing a female squirrel monkey (named Baker) to be launched into space. Baker, along with a rhesus monkey called Able, achieved suborbital space flight on 28 May 1959. They were launched with a Jupiter missile (mission AM-18) to an altitude of 480 kilometres in a flight lasting 16 minutes. Both monkeys survived the flight, but Able died four days later. Baker, who would later reside at the US Space and Rocket Center, lived to the age of 27 in 1984. Able and Baker were the first monkeys to be successfully recovered alive from space. Photographed in May 1959.
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