Miniature UFO Monkey Abduction Diorama

A cheeky little diorama of a silver flying saucer beaming up a startled monkey. The saucer hovers on a translucent tractor beam above a patch of green bushes and a tree stump, with glowing orange landing legs. The monkey dangles mid-air with his arms and tail flung out. The base is marked "Made in China". It's palm-sized and full of character, a guaranteed conversation starter on a desk, a bookshelf or a quirky gift table.

Monkeys really did get to space before people. On 31 January 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham was launched by NASA on a Mercury-Redstone rocket from Cape Canaveral. He flew a suborbital trip very like the one Alan Shepard would make, and splashed down alive 16.5 minutes later. That made Ham the first hominid to survive a space flight, three months before the first American astronaut followed him.