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 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