Monkeys Used in Experiments
- Able - (Rhesus Macaque) and Baker - (Peruvian Squirrel Monkey), both female, the first monkeys sent into space to survive the experience. They were launched on 28 May 1959 in the nose cone of a Jupiter AM-18 missile as a test of NASA's launch facilities at Cape Canaveral and procedures for retrieving astronauts after splashdown. Able died a few months after the mission, but Baker lived another 25 years.
- Britches - removed from his mother at birth, Britches was left alone with his eyes sewn shut as part of a study into blindness. He was rescued by the Animal Liberation Front, which publicized the condition he was found in, and the experiment was shut down.
- Gordo (also known as Old Reliable) - He was launched in the US Jupiter AM-13 Rocket in 1958, but was lost after a technical failure at the end of the mission.
- Hellion - (Capuchin) trained by Mary Joan Willard to assist disabled people, was the first trainee to be placed. In 1977, Hellion started assisting a quadriplegic, Robert Foster, with chores and general assistance.
- Miss Sam - (Rhesus Macaque) sent into space under the Little Joe program in 1960.
- Semos - a nine-year-old male rhesus macaque at the Oregon National Primate Research Center who supplied the skin cells from which scientists were able to successfully derive embryonic stem cells.
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