Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, waits in her bio-pack couch before her flight on the Jupiter AM-18 rocket. The Jupiter AM-18 mission, launched on May 28, 1959, carried Miss Baker and an American-born rhesus monkey, Able, into sub-orbit. Both monkeys were recovered in good condition, making Jupiter AM-18 the first mission to successfully carry animals into space and back.

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