This ultrasoft Miss Baker plush astronaut is 9 inches tall. Wonderful to squeeze and touch! Machine washable.

Miss Baker is the rhesus monkey who became one of the first U.S. astronauts in 1959 and appeared on the cover of Life magazine.

Miss Baker was among a pair of monkeys sent into space aboard a Huntsville-built Jupiter rocket that brought her safely back to Earth on May 28, 1959. She and her co-passenger, Abel, reached an altitude of 300 miles, traveling in excess of 10,000 miles per hour. They withstood forces 38 times the pull of gravity and felt weightlessness for nine minutes.