Animals in space 1959 flight. On 28 May 1959, aboard Jupiter IRBM AM-18, were a 7-pound (3.18 kg) American-born rhesus monkey, Able, from Independence, Kansas, and an 11-ounce (310-gram) squirrel monkey from Peru, Baker. The monkeys rode in the nose cone of the missile to an altitude of 360 miles (579 km) and a distance of 1,700 miles (2,735 km) down the Atlantic Missile Range from Cape Canaveral, Florida. They withstood forces 38 times the normal pull of gravity and were weightless for about 9 minutes. A top speed of 10,000 mph (16,000 km/h) was reached during their 16-minute flight. The monkeys survived
Miss Earth Albania 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 in United Kingdom, an international pageant dedicated to Albanian women. In 2006, the winner of Miss Shqiptarja 2006 (Blerta Halili) participated in Miss Earth 2006 in the Philippines. The pageant was moved to Shkodër, Albania and changed its name to