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 Austria Miss Austria Miss Austria is a national beauty pageant in Austria. From 1959, the promoter is "Miss Austria Corporation". Winner represents Austria in Miss World on occasions the winner is also send to Miss Universe pageant. In the pageant of Miss Austria, the first and second placed candidates of each federal state take part. So in the final there are 18 delegates from the 9 "Bundesländer". In 2016 Silvia Schachermayer handled Miss Earth pageant into the family of Miss Austria Corporation. In 2018, the organization gave up the license for Miss Universe and Miss Earth. Traditionally the winner or sometimes