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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thilzz" data-source="post: 4832135" data-attributes="member: 103868">SPACE MONKEY PICTURES: 50-Year Anniversary <img src="http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd350/thilzz/1-2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> A squirrel monkey named Baker peers out from a 1950s NASA biocapsule as she's readied for her first space mission. Baker and a rhesus monkey named Able launched aboard a Jupiter AM-18 rocket on May 28, 1959—50 years ago this week. The pair returned to Earth alive after a 15-minute flight, becoming the first primates to survive a trip into space. Miss Baker, as she came to be known, spent the latter part of her life at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. She died of kidney failure in 1984 at the ripe old age of 27. <img src="http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd350/thilzz/2-2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The rhesus monkey Able is tucked into a NASA cradle in preparation for takeoff aboard a U.S. Army rocket on May 28, 1959. Fifty years ago Able and her squirrel monkey companion, Baker, became the first monkeys to survive the trip into space. Sadly, Able died a few days later during surgery to remove an infected electrode. Able was preserved after her death and is currently <a href="http://collections.nasm.si.edu/code/emuseum.asp?style=browse&currentrecord=1&page=search&profile=objects&searchdesc=monkey&quicksearch=monkey&newvalues=1&newstyle=single&newcurrentrecord=4" target="_blank">on display inside her cradle</a> at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.      <img src="http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd350/thilzz/3-3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Wearing a hot dog-shaped "contour couch," Sam-the rhesus monkey launched aboard a Mercury spacecraft in December 1959 Sam's mission was to test the craft's launch escape system. About a minute into the flight, Sam's capsule was ejected from the rocket. After soaring 51 miles (82 kilometers) above Earth, the capsule landed in the Atlantic Ocean, where Sam, unhurt, was recovered. The monkey was later returned to a training colony, and he lived until 1982. <img src="http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd350/thilzz/4-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Hugh Blodgett and Lynn Brown of the University of Texas slide Sam the rhesus monkey into a space capsule on December 4, 1959, at a launch site in Wallops Island, Virginia. Sam's mate, dubbed Miss Sam (not shown), also served in NASA space-flight tests, making it 9 miles (14.5 kilometers) above Earth in 1960 during a test of the Mercury spacecraft's launch escape system. <img src="http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd350/thilzz/5-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Three chimpanzees named Duane, Jim, and Chu sit strapped into spacecraft cradles at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, in January 1961. The chimps were among 75 trainees slated to ride into space before humans, to help researchers test the physiological and neurological stresses of space flight. </blockquote>

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