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.

Two monkeys, Able and Baker went to space. ... Baker, who was often referred to as Miss Baker, survived the postflight hubbub but remained a public icon. For years, ...

The shoebox-size capsule was insulated with rubber and fiberglass, and Miss Baker was covered with sensors to record her vital signs as she went into space. On May 28, 1959, Mses. Baker and Able ...

Space monkeys Able and Baker were the ... Her biometric probes were successfully removed without anesthetic and she was soon given a new life as “Miss Baker: America’s First Lady of Space. ...

On May 28, 1959, two monkeys named Able and Baker became the first monkeys to go to space and make it back alive. Miss Able was a rhesus monkey from Kansas, and her crewmate Miss Baker was a ...

FileAble and Miss Baker return from space. Monkeys Able and Baker, known as "the monkeynauts," were lofted from Cape Canaveral, Fla., 50 years ago today and were the first American mammals to ...

Accompanying her on the journey was Miss Able, a 7-pound rhesus monkey who had also been selected ... Alabama’s Rome News-Tribune reported on the wedding between “Miss Baker, the space monkey, ...

She lived at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center and was the first monkey to travel to space and make it back alive — one of the world’s first Monkeynauts. In 1959, Miss Baker as well as her friend and ...

Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, is tucked inside her capsule and ready to launch into space aboard a Jupiter missile. She traveled into space on May 28, 1959, along with Able, an American-born ...

This week marks the anniversary of some serious intrepid traveling: NASA successfully launched the first monkeys into space 50 years ago. Two rhesus monkeys named Miss Baker and Able were launched ...

New video and pictures of monkeys being sent into space by NASA at the start of the space race have emerged. ... This changed, however, with the flight of Miss Baker and Miss Able on May 28, 1959.