Animals in space human in space. On 13 December 1958, a Jupiter IRBM, AM-13, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a United States Navy-trained South American squirrel monkey named Gordo on board. The nose cone recovery parachute failed to operate and Gordo was lost. Telemetry data sent back during the flight showed that the monkey survived the 10 g of launch, 8 minutes of weightlessness and 40 g of reentry at 10,000 miles per hour (16,000 km/h). The nose cone sank downrange from Cape Canaveral and was not recovered. Monkeys Able and Baker became the first monkeys to survive spaceflight after their
Miss Philippines Earth represent Philippines in Miss Earth pageant. The beauty pageant's current titleholder is Silvia Celeste Cortesi who represented the Filipino community of Rome, Italy was crowned Miss Earth Philippines 2018 by reigning Miss Earth 2017 Karen Ibasco on May 19, 2018. Celeste is the first woman to win the Miss Earth Philippines title from the Filipino communities abroad. In the first quarter of 2001, Carousel Productions relinquished the franchise for both Mutya ng Pilipinas (Beauty of the Philippines) and Miss Asia Pacific International beauty contests and decided to establish a beauty pageant whose cause is to have its candidates and winners