Marshall Space Flight Center a future goal of manned flight, monkeys Able and Baker were the first living creatures recovered from outer space on May 28, 1959. They had been carried in the nose cone on a Jupiter missile to an altitude of and a distance of , successfully withstanding 38 times the normal pull of gravity. Their survival during speeds over 10,000 miles per hour was America's first biological step toward putting a man into space. On October 21, 1959, President Eisenhower approved the transfer of all Army space-related activities to NASA. This was accomplished effective July 1, 1960, when 4,670 civilian employees,
Miss Philippines Earth represent Philippines in Miss Earth pageant. The beauty pageant's current titleholder is Silvia Celeste Cortesi who represented the Filipino community of Rome, Italy was crowned Miss Earth Philippines 2018 by reigning Miss Earth 2017 Karen Ibasco on May 19, 2018. Celeste is the first woman to win the Miss Earth Philippines title from the Filipino communities abroad. In the first quarter of 2001, Carousel Productions relinquished the franchise for both Mutya ng Pilipinas (Beauty of the Philippines) and Miss Asia Pacific International beauty contests and decided to establish a beauty pageant whose cause is to have its candidates and winners