Felicette and Hector - the first French Catsonaut and Ratstronaut

[Grey Havoc]

From when France was still thinking of getting in on the Space Race: http://gizmodo.com/the-secret-history-of-the-first-cat-in-space-1791663725

 

[Archibald]

From when France was still thinking of getting in on the Space Race: http://gizmodo.com/the-secret-history-of-the-first-cat-in-space-1791663725

There is nothing secret. I've known of Felicette for decades. There was also a rat, Hector.

 

[blackstar]

From when France was still thinking of getting in on the Space Race: http://gizmodo.com/the-secret-history-of-the-first-cat-in-space-1791663725

There is nothing secret. I've known of Felicette for decades. There was also a rat, Hector.

Yeah, Hector was great and stuff, but he's no Remy:

 

[Michel Van]

interesting Story, but they launch almost every thing with Sounding Rockets from 1960s on.

I will not post that You Tube video about Felicette flight.
because it's include cruelties to Animal

 

[klem]

So, isn't hector handsome with his little anti-g suit ?

 

[klem]

This happened On February 22, 1961, Véronique AGI-24 took off from the Hammaguir base in the Algerian desert. The story goes that it was Hector's double that was placed in the tip of the Véronique rocket since this one had gnawed the braid of the conductors to which it was connected.

 

[riggerrob]

What?
Those arrogant Frenchmen did not send a genuine French citizen bornin la belle France?

Even more silly was those shallow Americans sending an African-born monkey into space.

At least the Soviets sent a Russian-born dog up on their first live space flight.
Go Soviets!
What?
You say that no one will admit to being a soviet any more?
?
?
?

 

[Archibald]

The cat was a female one - a pussy, with the name of Felicette. Dogstronaut, catstronaut, ratronaute, monkeynaut, apenaut... and turtlenauts, the first living beings ever to get around the Moon three months before Borman, Lovell and Anders.

 

[uk 75]

The animal loving Brits have never launched any living thing into space. But as we only managed to launch one object into space by ourselves this was more by luck.

 

[TomcatViP]

Poor Darwin would have lost quite a few hairs trying to make some logic out of the Astronaut species...

 

[flateric]

From when France was still thinking of getting in on the Space Race: http://gizmodo.com/the-secret-history-of-the-first-cat-in-space-1791663725

Памятник астрокошке Фелисетт

Художник и скульптор Михаил Поляков из Дубны подарил городу очередной шедевр. Новая мозаика, изображающая кошку Фелисетт, которая первой из семейства кошачьих покорила космос, теперь украшает стену лофт-бара Лимонад. Над скульптурой легендарной французской кошки Михаил Поляков…

ingria-koshki.livejournal.com

 

[klem]

The cat was a female one - a pussy, with the name of Felicette. Dogstronaut, catstronaut, ratronaute, monkeynaut, apenaut... and turtlenauts, the first living beings ever to get around the Moon three months before Borman, Lovell and Anders.

About Félicette, it must be admitted that since 2019, she has been honored with a memorial. ( https://www.space.com/felicette-first-cat-in-space-statue-unveiled-in-france.html ).

 

[publiusr]

The story goes that it was Hector's double that was placed in the tip of the Véronique rocket since this one had gnawed the braid of the conductors to which it was connected.

Didn’t some rats find R-7 wire coatings edible?

 

[TheKutKu]

Was the other cat that flew to space - but died - on Veronique V50 6 days later ever named?

 

[archipeppe]

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So, isn't hector handsome with his little anti-g suit ?

Awesome!!!

 

[Justo Miranda]

It is not an anti-g suit but a corset to prevent the animal from swelling during a partial decompression

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