Miss Baker Auburn University after attaining the record for oldest living squirrel monkey. She is buried on the grounds at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. Her tombstone routinely has one or more bananas on top. 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
Miss Earth 2005 Mother Nature, water or air, which would you choose and why?" Winning answer: "The four elements are important but air is the most significant because it gives us life and it’s what we breathe." – Alexandra Braun, representing Venezuela Countries and delegates that participated in Miss Earth 2005: Numerous contestants appeared in other pageants. These include: Miss Earth 2005 Miss Earth 2005, the 5th edition of the Miss Earth pageant, took place on 23 October 2005 in Quezon City, Philippines. A total of 80 candidates from around the globe took part in the event. At the conclusion of the pageant,