Miss Baker the monkeynaut was a celebrity during her years at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. She was brought to Huntsville ...

Albert (I through V) The first living beings shot into space were fruit flies, in 1947. A year later, NASA put a male rhesus monkey, Albert, into a V-2 rocket. Albert died, possibly suffocating ...

It was all harmless fun at first for Baker, a squirrel monkey, and her space travel companion, Able, a rhesus monkey, in the run-up to their 16-minute space flight on May 28, 1959. But the trip ...

according to a brief history of animals in space on the agency’s website. For example, a rhesus monkey named “Miss Sam” was ...

Although the rhesus monkey is an excellent model of human growth hormone physiology, no developmental survey of serum concentrations of the growth hormone dependent somatomedin, insulin-like ...

However, Miss Baker and Able, two rhesus monkeys, survived their 1959 journey, making them the first monkeys to return safely from space. Dogs The Soviet Union famously used dogs for their space ...

Of two hunky monkeys, which would you say has the most sex appeal? That’s easier to answer if you’re a rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)—or Constance Dubuc, an evolutionary biologist at the ...

We gave 125 I-tyrosylated-C-peptide (I-CP) to 6 pregnant Rhesus monkeys by bolus followed by constant infusion. This resulted in a steady state in the maternal circulation of immunoprecipitable ...