Miss Baker Miss Baker Miss Baker (1957 – November 29, 1984) was a squirrel monkey who in 1959 became, along with rhesus macaque Miss Able, one of the first two animals launched into space by the United States and safely returned. Previous United States efforts at launching monkeys to space had met with the animals' demise from suffocation or parachute failure, and Soviet Union efforts had fared little better, to the chagrin of animal rights activists. The Soviet Union had recovered two dogs, the first mammals to be recovered from suborbital space flight, from an altitude of on July 22, 1951 and
Miss Earth United Kingdom Miss Earth United Kingdom Miss Earth United Kingdom (or Miss Earth Great Britain) is a Beauty pageant that chooses women to represent the British country of the Great Britain at the Miss Earth pageant. Miss Earth United Kingdom identified held for first time in 2005. The official representative since that year was used as "United Kingdom". Before creating Miss Earth UK in 2005, the country already joined at Miss Earth pageant in under other organizations in the country. In 2002 and 2004 the representatives of United Kingdom were used as "Miss Great Britain" at Miss Earth pageant. In 2006 the