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"...all these worlds..." is a blog by David Hitt. It covers space exploration, decent science fiction, humor (by its very nature), and whatever else I happen to find cool. (Formerly "You Must Fight The Bear")
Name: David Hitt About Me: Inspiring the next generation of explorers... See my complete profile
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:: Friday, May 28, 2004 ::
Space Monkey Mafia
On this date in 1959, space monkeys Able and Baker become the first living creatures to travel into space and return safely to Earth, on a fifteen minute suborbital flight in the nose cone of a Jupiter missile. Able died later as a result of surgery to remove the electrodes implanted in his body for the flight, while Miss Baker lived for many years afterwards (I got to see her as a child) and is now buried in front of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, where tribute-payers oft leave bananas atop her memorial.