Miss BakerMercury Programme, 28 May 1959Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper, 25.3 x 20.5 cm (10 x 8 in), IS stamp and a caption affixed to versoProvenance: from Tim Furniss collectionFootnotes:Miss Baker and Able were two small female squirrel monkeys who flew as part of NASA's Bioflight No 2 mission, along with payloads ranging from blood samples to yeast cells to two frogs on Jupiter AM-18 on 28 May 1959. Their survival - they were the first live creatures to survive a spaceflight - was of paramount importance to NASA who needed the success to harvest public support for its activities. Miss Baker lived until she was 27