Miss B Goes to Space

A little monkey. A daring space mission. An adventure that changed the world! In 1959, Miss Baker, an eleven-ounce squirrel monkey, became the first living creature to fly to space from American soil and safely return to Earth. This remarkable achievement showed that life could survive in space and paved the way for NASA's Mercury and Apollo programs.

Miss B Goes To Space, a captivating book for young readers, tells the true story of the monkey who became a space explorer-or "monkeynaut"-as ...