The capsule and couch used by one of America's first spacefarers, a rhesus monkey named Able. Able and a companion squirrel monkey named Baker were placed inside a Jupiter missile nose cone and launched on a test flight in May 1959.
The capsule and couch used by one of America's first spacefarers, a rhesus monkey named Able. Able and a companion squirrel monkey named Baker were placed inside a Jupiter missile nose cone and launched on a test flight in May 1959.
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