File:Able on display in Apollo to the Moon, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.jpg

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The capsule and couch used by one of America's first spacefarers, a rhesus monkey named Able, is displayed in Apollo to the Moon. Able and a companion squirrel monkey named Miss Baker were placed inside a Jupiter missile nose cone and launched on a test flight in May 1959.

Image Number: SI 99-15221-0
Source National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Author Eric Long, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

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