Miss Baker Miss Baker Miss Baker (1957 – November 29, 1984) was a squirrel monkey who in 1959 became, along with rhesus macaque Miss Able, one of the first two animals launched into space by the United States and safely returned. Previous United States efforts at launching monkeys to space had met with the animals' demise from suffocation or parachute failure, and Soviet Union efforts had fared little better, to the chagrin of animal rights activists. The Soviet Union had recovered two dogs, the first mammals to be recovered from suborbital space flight, from an altitude of on July 22, 1951 and
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