On May 28, 1959, two monkeys named Able and Baker became the first monkeys to go to space and make it back alive. Miss Able ...

Before Yuri Gargarin jetted into space and Neil Armstrong walked on the dusty surface of the moon, animals like dogs, monkeys and chimps became the world's first astronauts. As the Earth, the ...

according to a brief history of animals in space on the agency's website. A rhesus macaque monkey rests his chin on a water pipe on Cayo Santiago, known as Monkey Island off the eastern coast of ...

Monkey Able, a greyish, 6-lb. rhesus, was a graduate of a school at ... Inside the nose cone, Monkey Able was dressed in a space suit and strapped to a carefully shaped contour couch of fiber ...

On September 20, 1951, almost a decade before Shephard went to space and 70 years before the billionaire crowd made it, a Rhesus monkey named Yorick changed space history. On that day, Yorick was ...

according to a brief history of animals in space on the agency’s website. For example, a rhesus monkey named “Miss Sam” was launched in 1960 in a Mercury capsule that attained a velocity of ...

Originally, macaques were only found in northern Africa and Asia, but a population of 409 rhesus macaques were moved from India to the island in 1938. There are currently more than 1,000 monkeys ...

Albert VI was the first to survive the launch and landing back down on Earth, but didn't manage to reach space on the way. It wasn't until squirrel monkey Miss Baker and rhesus Able finally ...