U.S. Space & Rocket Center Space Shot ride along with slides and tunnels, all under a canopy. The indoor area fosters imaginative play about a trip to Mars with a space ship and some cartoon "aliens". The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is also the resting place of Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey who flew on a suborbital test flight of the PGM-19 Jupiter rocket on May 28, 1959. Baker lived in a facility at the Center from 1971 until she died of kidney failure in November 1984. The Space & Rocket Center offers bus tours of Marshall Space Flight Center. The tour offers views
Miss Earth 2009 Miss Earth 2009 Miss Earth 2009, the ninth edition of Miss Earth pageant, was held on 22 November 2009 at the Boracay Ecovillage Resort and Convention Center in Boracay, Malay, Aklan, Philippines. The pageant had 80 delegates from various countries and territories that vied for the Miss Earth crown. The pageant's top 16 semi-finalists competed on both swimsuit and evening gown competitions to determine the top eight semi-finalists, the first time since 2003. At the end of the competition, the outgoing titleholder, Miss Earth 2008, Karla Henry of the Philippines, crowned Larissa Ramos of Brazil as her successor. The Miss