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 Austria Miss Austria Miss Austria is a national beauty pageant in Austria. From 1959, the promoter is "Miss Austria Corporation". Winner represents Austria in Miss World on occasions the winner is also send to Miss Universe pageant. In the pageant of Miss Austria, the first and second placed candidates of each federal state take part. So in the final there are 18 delegates from the 9 "Bundesländer". In 2016 Silvia Schachermayer handled Miss Earth pageant into the family of Miss Austria Corporation. In 2018, the organization gave up the license for Miss Universe and Miss Earth. Traditionally the winner or sometimes