# Monkeys - Jupiter Space Shot

Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984) ARC Identifier 30088 / Local Identifier 111-LC-49268 1959 Monkeys - Jupiter Space Shot Summary: Two rhesus monkeys, Able and Baker, who survived a biomedical research trip into space in a Jupiter missile nosecone are picked up somewhere in the South Atlantic Ocean by the US Navy tug Kiowa. Scenes show the Jupiter nose cone being picked up and taken aboard. Monkeys are taken out of their containers. CUs, members of the crew hold the monkeys. Monkey being held over newspaper item: "2 US Space Monkeys Ready for Hero Tribute". At pier in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the nose cone is unloaded from ship and placed onto truck. DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1959
- By: National Archives and Records Administration
- Genres: Education, Space
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.30088)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.