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Baker on Jupiter Model

Baker, a squirrel monkey, perches on a model of the Jupiter missile that launched her into space on a sub-orbital flight, along with a rhesus monkey named Able, on May 28, 1959.

Image Number: SI-2003-4850
Credit: National Air and Space Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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