Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last, Army agents found in Madison, Wis. four rhesus monkeys guaranteed (well, almost guaranteed) to have been born in the Independence (Kans.) zoo. While being flown to Fort Knox, they escaped in a way-station airport and were at large for some time. When they finally arrived at Cape Canaveral on May 14, they were put into intensive training courses. But the two weeks before blastoff were not enough. Result: the button-pressing experiment had to be abandoned simply because Able did not have the hang...
...This was what the tug, along with a pair of escort destroyers, had been waiting for. Kiowa pitched on at flank speed through heavy seas, arrived at its destination about 25 minutes later, sent frogmen over the side. Later, she radioed a professionally laconic message to Florida's Cape Canaveral, 1,500 miles away, from which the bright meteor had been shot. The message...
Able and Baker were female monkeys, Able a rhesus and Baker a squirrel monkey. From Cape Canaveral, in the nose cone of a Jupiter missile, they had soared 360 miles into space before being plucked from the sea. Their journey beggared imagination, for Able and Baker were the first living creatures to travel through space and return from it alive...
...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 was surprised; of the 20 Army Jupiters fired so far, only one has failed...
After 14 minutes Cape Canaveral lost radio touch. The nose cone was plunging into the atmosphere at the end of its flight, and as usual the hot trail of ionized air that re-entry produces blocked off radio waves...