Celebrate the 65th Anniversary of the Launch of Miss Baker!  Miss Baker and her companion Able became the first U.S. animals to successfully complete a mission to space. On May 28, 1959, the pair were launched on a Jupiter missile, which took them on a 16-minute suborbital flight. They experienced 9 minutes of weightlessness. Following her flight Miss Baker lived at the Naval Aerospace Medical Center in Pensacola, FL. before moving to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in 1971.