Animals in space 1959 flight. On 28 May 1959, aboard Jupiter IRBM AM-18, were a 7-pound (3.18 kg) American-born rhesus monkey, Able, from Independence, Kansas, and an 11-ounce (310-gram) squirrel monkey from Peru, Baker. The monkeys rode in the nose cone of the missile to an altitude of 360 miles (579 km) and a distance of 1,700 miles (2,735 km) down the Atlantic Missile Range from Cape Canaveral, Florida. They withstood forces 38 times the normal pull of gravity and were weightless for about 9 minutes. A top speed of 10,000 mph (16,000 km/h) was reached during their 16-minute flight. The monkeys survived
Miss Earth Argentina Miss Earth Argentina Miss Earth Argentina is a national Beauty pageant that selects Argentina's representative to the Miss Earth pageant. The Miss Earth Argentina title was launched in 2001 with Daniela Stucan as the first titleholder who represented Argentina in the international pageant and won an elemental title, "Miss Fire" (third runner-up) in the Miss Earth 2001 pageant. In 2006, the pageant was held by Glamour Argentino. From 2007-2010, the franchise was under the organizers of Miss Mundo Argentina, Belleza Argentina/N-Entertainment under the direction of Nadia Cerri (1997 Miss International Argentina). In 2012, the franchise was awarded to Gary Colos