Miss Baker Burgess and Chris Dubbs in their 2007 book ‘Animals In Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle.’ For this, and her apparent pleasure at being handled with tender loving care, she earned the nickname TLC. With experiments imminent, the Army named their monkey "Alpha," and the Navy followed with "Bravo," names taken directly from the phonetic alphabet. Before flight, though, the names changed to the first letters of the antiquated Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet. Miss Baker wore a helmet lined with rubber and chamois leather plus a jacket for launch, in addition to a respiration meter affixed to her
Miss Earth women wear ankle-length dresses. Nevertheless, her participation in the pageant received approval from the Dalai Lama.<ref name="csmonitor.com/2006/1017/p07s02-wosc.html"></ref><ref name="misstibet.com/history/2006/stories/20061206-miss_tibet_goes_global.html"></ref><ref name="xeni.net/trek/2006/11/miss-tibet-crowned-headed-for-miss.html"></ref><ref name="news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7129296.stm"></ref> Carousel Productions licensed the Miss Cuba organization in 2007 to select the first Cuban representative at Miss Earth. Ariana Barouk won; she became the first Miss Cuba in several decades, and competed at the Miss Earth Pageant.<ref name="showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view_article.php?article_id"></ref> Also in 2007, Miss Earth made history when delegates from China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and Tibet all competed together for the first time in an international pageant in spite of political sensitivities. In 2008, the Buddhist Kingdom of Bhutan, one of