On January 21, 1960, a monkey named Miss Sam launched on a Little Joe rocket to help NASA test the launch escape system for its new Mercury spacecraft. This spacecraft would ultimately carry the first ...

(Clockwise from left): Astronauts need spacesuits and that ... It was all harmless fun at first for Baker, a squirrel monkey, and her space travel companion, Able, a rhesus monkey, in the ...

29, 1961, Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral ... and some of the challenges that come with combining astronauts and other species in space: ...