The squirrel monkey that survived a 1959 U.S. suborbital spaceflight was Miss Baker.
On May 28, 1959, Miss Baker flew with Miss Able, a rhesus macaque, aboard Jupiter AM-18, an Army Jupiter missile launched from Cape Canaveral. The capsule reached about 300 miles (483 kilometers) and experienced roughly nine minutes of weightlessness during a 16-minute flight.
Both monkeys were recovered alive, making them the first U.S. primates to survive launch, weightlessness, reentry, and recovery. Miss Able later died during an operation to remove a medical electrode, while Miss Baker lived until 1984. She became a celebrated spaceflight animal and was later displayed at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Gordo, another squirrel monkey, flew in 1958 but was lost when his capsule’s recovery system failed. Ham was a chimpanzee who flew on a 1961 Mercury suborbital mission, and Albert II died on impact after a 1949 flight.