As scientists were contemplating the medical specifics of weightlessness in space in 1958, they used a kitten as a stand-in for human testing. Capt. Druey P. Parks took an F-94C jet up to 25,000 feet to study the cat’s reaction. Of all the possible animals they could have released into zero-gravity, a cat seems like the least convenient option. Thankfully, the cat did not transform into a ball of slashing claws and fangs. Parks described the animal’s reaction as one of “bewilderment.”
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