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Monkeys in Space - 1959 | Today in History | 28 May 16

On May 28, 1959, the U.S. Army launched Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey, aboard a Jupiter missile for a suborbital flight which both primates survived. Almost zero hour at Cape Canaveral, and enlarged 16mm pictures show a monkey, specially trained and conditioned for voyaging in space. Two monkeys had been selected for the job; they called them "Able" and "Baker", "a" and "b" of-course. Each one was placed in a small compartment in the nose-cone of a "Jupiter" missile. Then, they went off. It was a fifteen-hundred-mile journey, reaching a height of three hundred miles and a speed of ten thousand miles an hour. Radio signals at once send out a message to the rescue teams standing by. The monkeys came down safely near Antigua. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you... Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork