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1959: Space monkeys (Universal News)

Monkeys "Able" and "Baker" became the first monkeys to survive spaceflight after their 1959 flight. On 28 May 1959, aboard Jupiter IRBM AM-18, were a 7-pound (3.18 kg) American-born rhesus monkey,...  
 
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sampsoninc916 (5 months ago) Show Hide
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You can see Able the space monkey alongside his pal, Dexter in Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian. Able gets to do slapping in this one, too.
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I wish he would have lived much longer tho
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just think of all the monkeys who died to make it possible for humans to be in space!
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Paddyslippers (4 months ago) Show Hide
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there a bit like yourself so
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i thought it was ham
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Ham went up in 1961. He was a chimp, the first hominid in space.
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