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 Earth Albania Miss Earth Albania to promote environmental protection in Albania. The pageant is under the direction of Enkeleida Omi, Artan Zeneli, and Tauland Omi of Alba Media Entertainment until 2009. Agnesa Vuthaj is now the Albanian National Director for Miss Earth. Miss Earth Albania Miss Earth Albania, formerly "Miss Shqiptarja", is the national beauty pageant preliminary of Miss Earth in Albania. The winner represents Albania to the Miss Earth pageant from 2006 to 2009. In 2013, Agnesa Vuthaj, a former Miss Albania herself, started the National Directorship of Miss Earth Albania. Miss Earth Albania emerged from the pageant, Miss Shqiptarja held