All cats areamateur physicist . We know this because they assert on forever knocking things over to make trusted sombreness still live . But just because cats are interested in science does n’t make them great candidates for distance travel . Of naturally , that did n’t stop over the Air Force from putting that to the test .
Archivalvideo footage from 1947shows research worker at the Air Force ’s Wright - Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton , Ohio , flying kitty and pigeons on a C-131 aircraft , dub the “ Vomit Comet , ” that sham lightness through a parabolical trajectory trajectory . The experimentwas part ofthe Aerospace Medical Division Hq 657Oth Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories ’ bioastronautics research , so the Air Force plausibly require to see how kitty would fare in outer space before humans went . The researcher wrote very detailed direction on how humans could potentially move around in space , free-base on kitten maneuvers .
Though Americans ( regrettably ) never place a CT into actual space , France did , because , of course . On October 24th , 1963 , theCentre internal d’étudessent a black tie cat named Fèlicette on a 15 - moment - long jaunt in subocular space . She subsist , and waslater studiedby Gallic scientists at the Education Center of Aviation and Medical Research ( CERMA ) , to see whether or not her nous had been impacted by spaceflight .
Other animals were also blasted toward the final frontier to prove other projectile — and regrettably , some did n’t survive the misstep . On November 3rd , 1957 , the Soviets launched Sputnik 2 , which carried a weenie refer Laika on board . Though Laika became the first endure creature in orbital blank , engineerscouldn’t think of a re - entry architectural plan for Sputnik 2 in time for launchso she never made it back to Earth . In1948,NASA launched a rhesus monkey named Albert 39 mile ( 63 km ) up on a V2 rocket , but regrettably , he suffocate and died .
Many other animate being have been sent into space since these early days for research purposes . But it seems like no missions for khat in space have been pulled off since Fèlicette . The next clock time we ’ll see likely kitties in blank is when Elon Musk at last launches that Martian cat colonyI’ve been begging him for .
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