All hail the Cosmic Hero-Monkeys!

On Fri, 29 May 2009 10:11:06 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Comrades! It was fifty years ago yesterday that the concepts of "Space"
and "Cute, Personality-Filled Monkeys" first met:
http://blog.al.com/space-news/2009/0...ersary_of.html
Okay, there were a lot of monkeys on rockets before them, but they
either didn't make it into space or didn't survive the flight.
Dead monkeys are rarely cute, and never personality-filled:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_in_space


Pat

Miss Baker must have had a good life. She lived to be at least 25
years old, and that's about 5 years beyond average in captivity.