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 México not held until 2007. Titleholders prior to 2007 were chosen by the organizers in a private selection process. Mexico was first represented in Miss Earth 2002 by Libna Viruega Roldán from Distrito Federal, who was the first titleholder of Miss Earth Mexico. In 2008, Abigail Elizalde Romo, Miss Earth Mexico 2008, advanced in the semifinal and final round for the first time for Mexico at the Miss Earth pageant and eventually won the "Miss Water", one of the elemental crowns, in the Miss Earth 2008. Below are the names of the annual titleholders of Miss Earth Mexico, listed in ascending