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 Earth México not held until 2007. Titleholders prior to 2007 were chosen by the organizers in a private selection process. Mexico was first represented in Miss Earth 2002 by Libna Viruega Roldán from Distrito Federal, who was the first titleholder of Miss Earth Mexico. In 2008, Abigail Elizalde Romo, Miss Earth Mexico 2008, advanced in the semifinal and final round for the first time for Mexico at the Miss Earth pageant and eventually won the "Miss Water", one of the elemental crowns, in the Miss Earth 2008. Below are the names of the annual titleholders of Miss Earth Mexico, listed in ascending