Keywords: Able on display in Apollo to the Moon, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.jpg The capsule and couch used by one of America's first spacefarers a rhesus monkey named Able is displayed in Apollo to the Moon Able and a companion squirrel monkey named Baker were placed inside a Jupiter missile nose cone and launched on a test flight in May 1959 Image Number SI 99-15221-0 National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution Eric Long National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution Jupiter AM-18 Able space monkey National Air and Space Museum PD-USGov |