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Animals Aloft
Aviation can sometimes be downright inhuman.
By Rebecca Maksel
airspacemag.com, November 20, 2008
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Animals also paved the way into outer space. Somewhat less known than the Soviet’s dog Laika and the United States’ chimpanzee Ham, a squirrel monkey named Baker was launched into space on a suborbital flight aboard a Jupiter missile on May 28, 1959. None the worse for his space trek, Baker lived to the ripe old age of 27.
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even it it weren't written by my cuz, I'd recommend it highly (pun intended, of course)
Posted by l. Elliot Jay on November 20,2008 | 05:54PM