After 50 Years, Space Monkeys Not Forgotten
I’ve actually started working on an RPM book. These good monkeys are mentioned but Albert III is the one who’s getting his own page.
In Huntsville, Ala., there is an unusual grave site where, instead of flowers, people sometimes leave bananas.
The gravestone reads: “Miss Baker, squirrel monkey, first U.S. animal to fly in space and return alive. May 28, 1959.”
Fifty years ago, when Baker made her famous flight, she had some company in the nose cone of the Jupiter ballistic missile: a rhesus monkey named Able.