page_title: List of individual monkeys
section_title: Monkeys used in experiments
hierarchical_section_title: List of individual monkeys / Monkeys used in experiments
caption_attribution_description: English: Squirrel Monkey Miss Baker poses with the Certificate of Merit for Distinguished Service she was awarded by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) after her successful return to earth, the associated medal, and the couch used for her flight (to the right). Baker and her traveling companion Able were the first animals to return alive from space.
context_page_description: This annotated list of individual monkeys includes monkeys who are in some way famous or notable. The list does not include notable apes, or fictional primates.
context_section_description: Able - (rhesus macaque) and Baker - (peruvian squirrel monkey), both female, the first monkeys sent into space to survive the experience. They were launched on 28 May 1959 in the nose cone of a Jupiter AM-18 missile as a test of NASA's launch facilities at Cape Canaveral and procedures for retrieving astronauts after splashdown. Miss Able died a few months after the mission, but Miss Baker lived another 25 years.
  Britches - (stump-tailed macaque) removed from his mother at birth, Britches was left alone with his eyes sewn shut as part of a study into blindness. He was rescued by the Animal Liberation Front, which publicized the condition he was found in, and the experiment was shut down.
  Gordo (also known as "Old Reliable") - (squirrel monkey) He was launched in the US Jupiter AM-13 Rocket in 1958, but was lost after a technical failure at the end of the mission.
  Hellion - (capuchin) trained by Mary Joan Willard to assist disabled people, was the first trainee to be placed. In 1979, Hellion started assisting a quadriplegic, Robert Foster, with chores and general assistance.
  Miss Sam - (rhesus macaque) sent into space under the Little Joe program in 1960.
  Semos - a nine-year-old male rhesus macaque at the Oregon National Primate Research Center who supplied the skin cells from which scientists were able to successfully derive embryonic stem cells.
  Tetra - a rhesus macaque at the Oregon National Primate Research Center who was the first cloned primate, created through splitting.
caption: Miss Baker, with her Certificate of Merit from the ASPCA.
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