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Miss Baker (1957 – November 29, 1984) was a squirrel monkey who became, along with rhesus monkey Miss Able, one of the first two animals launched into space by the United States and recovered alive.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Find a Grave )〕 All previous United States efforts at launching monkeys to space had met with the animals' demise from suffocation or parachute failure, and Soviet Union efforts fared little better, to the chagrin of animal rights activists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=V2 )〕〔 Preceding Baker, the Soviet Union recovered two dogs, the first mammals to be recovered from suborbital space flight, from an altitude of on July 22, 1951, and subsequently recovered some other dogs. The United States flew some monkeys and mice by Aerobee rocket to heights below the edge of space beginning in 1951.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Animals in Space )〕 == Pre-flight == The squirrel monkey who was to become known as Miss Baker was purchased along with 25 other squirrel monkeys at a pet shop in Miami, Florida, and brought to the Naval Aviation Medical School in Pensacola. Fourteen of the candidates tolerated confinement for periods up to 24 hours, electrodes all over their bodies, and monitoring at all hours. Miss Baker "stood out from the rest because of her intelligence and loving, docile manner", relayed Burgess and Dubbs. For this, and her apparent pleasure at being handled with tender loving care, she earned the nickname TLC.〔 With experiments imminent, the Army named their monkey "Alpha," and the Navy followed with "Bravo," names taken directly from the phonetic alphabet. Before flight, though, the names changed to the first letters of the antiquated Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miss Baker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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