Space Monkeys' Odyssey

Clip: 356269_1_1

Year Shot: 1959 (Actual Year)

Audio: Yes

Video: B/W

Tape Master: 1660

Original Film: 032-044-01

HD: N/A

Location: Washington D.C. and others

Timecode: 00:19:45 - 00:21:54

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Space Monkeys' Odyssey Two monkeys, Able and Baker, become the first animal life to voyage into outer space and return safely to earth. Scenes show them in their space suits being placed aboard a Jupiter nose cone, the start of their flight - nighttime launch, 300 miles out, the recovery of the capsule at sea... Man removes one of the monkeys from the capsule. Unharmed but unamused. And the heroes' reception at a Washington, D.C., press conference (NASA logo hanging behind the stage). The little monkey eats.