The First And Only...

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...cat to survive a trip into space.  Meet Felicette, plucked from the streets of Paris to become Astro Kitty!  (chat de l'espace).  On October 18th, 1963. she went suborbital and did quite well.  So well that 3 months later those goddamn scientists killed her and autopsied her brain.  You would think that at the time Algeria was more important than dispassionate cruelty. 
Piloting solo into space makes Felicette anthropomorphic, and the people who killed her animals. On October 24 a second cat was launched but the craft could not be recovered for a day and the kitty died.
'Felicette' is French for 'Little Lady Felix'.
 
Pauvre chat!  This is one of the other 14 cats used for the program, the picture is too good to ignore.


Thanks for nothing, Starcat.


Back home. Of course there was nothing to be found by killing her, nothing.  Here she is with the people she loved and trusted.
Sorry sons of bitches. (Misérables fils de putes).


Belle chérie Felicette. Je suis vraiment désolé. Il n'y avait pas besoin de votre mort. J'espère que vous ronronnez sur les genoux de Dieu. Maintenant, vous êtes avec ceux qui vous aiment et vous chérissent, parmi les étoiles pour toujours.

(Beautiful darling Felicette. I am really sorry. There was no need for your death. I hope you are purring on God's knees. Now you are with those who love and cherish you, among the stars forever).


Philip Harris.

 
That is Laika and Ham behind her.  Ham lived.

Billy D, un lapin très en colère!

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