Able, a female rhesus monkey, and Miss Baker, a female squirrel monkey, have become the first primates to survive a space flight. The flight reached speeds of up to 10,000 miles per hour and ...

had two female monkeys aboard: Able (a rhesus) and Baker (like Gordo, a squirrel monkey). The pair would survive their trip, get paraded in front of journalists and become heroes, though their ...