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 2008 by Billy Crawford, international singer and actor from the film , Miss Earth 2004 winner Priscilla Meirelles, and Miss Earth Canada 2006 Riza Santos.<ref name="abs-cbnnews-entertainment/11/09/08/philippine-bet-miss-earth-2008"></ref><ref name="gmanews-story/132519/PEP-Ms-Philippines-wins-Ms-Earth-pageant"></ref> The following special awards were officially awarded during the grand coronation night: Final Question in Miss Earth 2008: "If you have the chance to speak to the newly-elected US President Barack Obama about the state of the global environment, what would you tell him?"<ref name="times-weekend/20081116week1.html"></ref> Answer of Miss Earth 2008: "What I would tell to the newly elected president of the USA, being one of the most powerful countries in the world, I would