In Huntsville, Ala., there is an unusual grave site where, instead of flowers, people sometimes leave bananas. The gravestone reads: "Miss Baker, squirrel monkey, first U.S. animal to fly in space and ...

On Sept. 16, 1949, the U.S. launched a V-2 rocket with a monkey named Albert III on board. Albert III was the third monkey the U.S. attempted to launch to space. He was also the third one to be killed ...

Iran state media reported on Saturday that they had sent a monkey into space as the country tiptoes towards manned space flight. The monkey was sent 72 miles up and then came back down in a mission ...

Iran, of course, isn't the first country to kill a monkey in space. A 2009 NPR article noted that monkey flights failed for over a decade after America first tried to send the animal into space in ...

The Jupiter take-off from Cape Canaveral last week was routine. The fat, 60-ft. IRBM rose from its pad, climbed through thin clouds, curved toward the southeast and vanished among the stars. No one ...