Miss Baker Auburn University after attaining the record for oldest living squirrel monkey. She is buried on the grounds at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. Her tombstone routinely has one or more bananas on top. 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
Miss Earth India semi-finals in Miss Earth 2004 and Miss Earth 2009, respectively. Both years were won by Brazil. On the other hand, during 2006 and 2007, India almost won the pageant through Amruta Patki and Pooja Chitgopekar who both finished as Miss Earth – Air or as 1st runner-up. In 2010, India finally won the Miss Earth crown through Nicole Faria. Aside from winning the main title, Nicole was also able to get some special awards such as the Miss Talent, which is the first special award in the 10th Miss Earth pageant. She performed a graceful belly dance that combined Oriental