Monkeys - Jupiter Space Shot

ARC Identifier 30088 / Local Identifier 111-LC-49268 - Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984) - 1959 - Summary: Two rhesus monkeys, Able and Baker, who survived a biomedical research trip into space in a Jupiter missile nosecone are picked up somewhere in the South Atlantic Ocean by the US Navy tug Kiowa. Scenes show the Jupiter nose cone being picked up and taken aboard. Monkeys are taken out of their containers. CUs, members of the crew hold the monkeys. Monkey being held over newspaper item: "2 US Space Monkeys Ready for Hero Tribute". At pier in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the nose cone is unloaded from ship and placed onto truck. - Copied by Thomas Gideon

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