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 United Kingdom Miss Earth United Kingdom Miss Earth United Kingdom (or Miss Earth Great Britain) is a Beauty pageant that chooses women to represent the British country of the Great Britain at the Miss Earth pageant. Miss Earth United Kingdom identified held for first time in 2005. The official representative since that year was used as "United Kingdom". Before creating Miss Earth UK in 2005, the country already joined at Miss Earth pageant in under other organizations in the country. In 2002 and 2004 the representatives of United Kingdom were used as "Miss Great Britain" at Miss Earth pageant. In 2006 the