Baker, First Monkey in Space

Baker, this one-pound female squirrel monkey, was, along with her fellow monkey Able, the first living creature to survive a space flight. On May 28, 1959, she was fired 300 miles into space in the nose cone of a Jupiter missile AM-18. Her flight lasted 15 minutes. She and Able were recovered near Puerto Rico in the Atlantic Ocean

Restrictions Only for Ireland and United Kingdom

Cone Jupiter Missile Nasa Nineteen Nineteen-fifties

Features In These Collections

> Contributors > PHR