Hey everyone, it's Dylan.

So one of the really amazing things about Atlas Obscura is the incredible team of writers

and editors and just all of the people who bring Atlas to life.

So we want to bring that neighborhood of incredible, beautiful creative minds right here into

this podcast space.

So today, I'll be joining Atlas reporter Annie Ubank, who's bringing us an amazing story

of a forgotten American hero.

I can't wait.

So imagine it's a sunny Florida day and you are an employee at this Miami pet shop,

you know, like I don't know, feeding the parents and, you know, giving carrots to the guinea pigs.

And suddenly like a car pulls up outside and, you know, a federal employee comes in maybe

with like a suit and like a badge and says, give me every monkey you've got 26 squirrel monkeys.

And I can't even imagine what the ride back to the naval base was like with a car full

of 26 tiny monkeys, but that is the beginning of this story about one of those monkeys.

And her name was Miss Baker.

I'm Annie Ubank.

This is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Today, we're stopping by the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama to pay our respects

to the first lady of space, an early American astronaut who was almost forgotten, but whose

real fans still know where to find her.

The incredible story of a monkey named Miss Baker, after this.

Okay, so what was the plan, what were they going to do with these 26 tiny cute monkeys?

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