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 DR Congo the world finals.<ref name="tnp.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,168817,00.html"></ref><ref name="spicezee.com/missuniverse08/article5354.htm"></ref><ref name="grandslampageants.com/directory.php"></ref> The reigning titleholders dedicate their year to promote environmental projects and to address issues concerning the environment.<ref name="tribuneindia.com/2004/20041008/world.htm"></ref> The first year Brazzaville Congo sent a representative to Miss Earth was in 2008. She goes on to compete at the pageant in the Philippines without a separate national competition and the Miss Earth franchise was obtained then by "Beauties of Africa Inc.", owned by Mr. Andy A. Abulime. In 2015, a delegate has attended the annual Miss Earth pageant in the Philippines. This in celebration of the return of "Miss Earth Congo" to Miss Earth,