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 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