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One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.
1959
Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey, rode a Jupiter rocket into space and returned alive, the first primates to survive spaceflight. Their safe return helped show that humans could endure the journey too.
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