This is a story I wanted to tell everyone about for a long time, but I honestly never got around to doing it. However there has been a lot of news lately about the Apollo Missions in which a human landed on the moon and returned safely back to earth, and it made me think of those incredibly brave space monkeys who were some of the first animals in space - because you humans were just too scared! 
The picture above is of Baker, a squirrel monkey, who was also a Space Monkey!
Able and Baker were the first living creatures from the US to go into space and experience weightlessness and come back to earth safely. Two years before humans finally got the courage!
10 years had passed where lots of other monkeys tried being astronauts but died for various reasons. Sadly even Able died a few days later due the effects of anesthesia after surgery.
But Baker lived on for another 25 years as an active member in the monkey space community and mostly spent her time at the U.S Space and Rocket Center in Alabama trying to educate humans on how to handle the final frontier!
She was very popular and received almost 150 letters a day up until her death in 1984 of Kidney failure.
The picture above is of Baker, a squirrel monkey, who was also a Space Monkey!Able and Baker were the first living creatures from the US to go into space and experience weightlessness and come back to earth safely. Two years before humans finally got the courage!
10 years had passed where lots of other monkeys tried being astronauts but died for various reasons. Sadly even Able died a few days later due the effects of anesthesia after surgery.
But Baker lived on for another 25 years as an active member in the monkey space community and mostly spent her time at the U.S Space and Rocket Center in Alabama trying to educate humans on how to handle the final frontier!
She was very popular and received almost 150 letters a day up until her death in 1984 of Kidney failure.
We will not forget you Baker - you were one courageous monkey!
For more Click Here!
Posts
2 comments:
MoJo, you're an excellent reporter.
Thank YOU!
Post a Comment