A statue to Félicette, the first cat in space.

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Over the last 54 years, the story of the first and only cat to go to space has been largely forgotten. She deserves a proper memorial. - Oui. In 1963.Félicette is the first and only cat to experience the weightlessness of space. Although other animals in space, such as Laika the dog and Ham the chimpanzee, are well-known within popular culture and have lasting memorials, very few people are aware that a cat went to space at all. Now it's time for The Astrocat to get the memorial she rightly deserves. Félicette In the early days of spaceflight research, scienti ...

Read More sts all over the world wanted to understand how the lack of gravity in space could affect human astronauts. So animal astronauts led the way, to see if life could survive in space at all. The Sydney Morning Herald - Oct 20, 1963 There are conflicting stories on whether the French space programme simply found Félicette as

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