Before any man had walked on the moon, the United States shot moonwards a squirrel monkey called Gordo. Paving the way for human lunanauts, Gordo survived the journey, but his parachute failed to open on the way back. His body was not found.
But there is more to the story than that. From 1959, Gordo or what looked extremely like him, wearing a spacesuit made of foil, not to mention a plastic helmet, started to be seen walking around the Space Coast in Florida. He was last reported in 1970. Peole approached him, but he gave the human race a wide berth.
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