“I don’t know if we’ll ever see cats or dogs fly again, at least in the short term,” Pearlman said. The next time we’ll see cats in space is likely when humans are living in space. Spaceflight (or space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly spacecraft into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board. Though some animals, like mice, are still sent into space, society has largely shifted away from testing the effects of spaceflight on domesticated animals. “So Félicette doesn’t have a path to that larger history. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel into space. “ is a partner through the European Space Agency and directly connected to NASA and the ISS, but French astronauts have typically launched on Russian or American rockets,” he said. On May 5, 1961, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. That could explain Félicette’s relative mysteriousness.
While France does have its own formidable space program, Pearlman said the French ultimately did not pursue sending humans into space on their nation’s own rockets. While not much is known about their findings - or about Félicette’s eventual fate - the CERMA said she had made “a valuable contribution to research”. She returned just 15 minutes later, already a decorated heroine for her nation.Īfter her landing, French scientists at the Education Center of Aviation and Medical Research (CERMA) studied Félicette’s brain waves to see if she had changed at all since her voyage. On 24 October 1963, Félicette jetted 200km above Earth on a liquid-fuelled French Véronique AG1 rocket, soaring high above the Algerian Sahara Desert. Her name was Félicette.įrom the streets of Paris, this tuxedo kitty - nicknamed “Astrocat” - would reach heights never achieved by feline kind. Data gathered from satellites and space observatories are not hampered (disrupted) by Earth’s atmosphere. Other nonhominid animals had ventured into space before Ham, but he and his fellow astrochimps were trained to pull levers and prove it was physically possible to pilot the Project Mercury spacecraft. The Hubble Space Telescope is an example of a space observatory. 31, 1961 a few months before Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering flight Ham became the first hominid in space. But on launch day, the mischievous little beast went missing - and an accidental heroine stepped in to take his place. Space Observatories are telescopes or other instruments that have been launched into outer space to collect data on distant planets, galaxies, and other celestial bodies. After lagging behind its Soviet and American competitors, France was eager to stake its claim in the space race - with cats, for some reason. On 18 October 1963, the Centre national d’études in France was set to send a small cat named Félix into space.
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