Miss Baker was a squirrel monkey who made U.S. space history. On May 28, 1959, she and a rhesus macaque named Able were launched on a Jupiter rocket and safely recovered after a brief suborbital flight. Miss Baker went on to live at public facilities, becoming a minor celebrity. She died in 1984 at age 27, a record age for squirrel monkeys at the time. She is buried at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where visitors still leave bananas on her headstone. Her flight helped de
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Miss Baker was a squirrel monkey who made U.S. space history. On May 28, 1959, she and a rhesus macaque named Able were launched on a Jupiter rocket and safely recovered
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