How Cats and Other Good Animals Helped Pave the Way For Human Spaceflight. All cats are amateur physicists. Donald Trump loves a good deal. And the United States Air Force just found one for the president, sitting in a Mojave Desert boneyard two brand new Boeing 7478s. Tabtight professional, free when you need it, VPN service. I love Radio controlled airplanes and have built several kinds from balsa to this large scale plastic one. This one is made from 25. 00 worth of plastic I bought. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. We know this because they insist on constantly knocking things over to make sure gravity still exists. But just because cats are interested in science doesnt make them great candidates for space travel. Of course, that didnt stop the Air Force from putting that to the test. Archival video footage from 1. Air Forces Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, flying kitties and pigeons on a C 1. Vomit Comet, that simulated weightlessness through a parabolic flight trajectory. The experiment was part of the Aerospace Medical Division Hq 6. Oth Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories bioastronautics research, so the Air Force probably wanted to see how kitties would fare in space before humans went. The researchers wrote very detailed instructions on how humans could potentially move around in space, based on kitty maneuvers. Though Americans regrettably never sent a cat into actual space, France did, because, of course. On October 2. 4th, 1. Centre national dtudes sent a tuxedo cat named Flicette on a 1. She survived, and was later studied by French scientists at the Education Center of Aviation and Medical Research CERMA, to see whether or not her brain had been impacted by spaceflight. Other animals were also blasted toward the final frontier to test early rocketsand regrettably, some didnt survive the trip. On November 3rd, 1. Soviets launched Sputnik 2, which carried a dog named Laika on board. Though Laika became the first living creature in orbital space, engineers couldnt think of a re entry plan for Sputnik 2 in time for launch so she never made it back to Earth. In 1. 94. 8, NASA launched a rhesus monkey named Albert 3. V2 rocket, but unfortunately, he suffocated and died. Many other animals have been sent into space since these early days for research purposes. But it seems like no missions for cats in space have been pulled off since Flicette. The next time well see likely kitties in space is when Elon Musk finally launches that Martian cat colony Ive been begging him for. About This Manual This is version 10. 40 of the manual to the home and professional versions of XPlane XPlane 10 Global and XPlane 10 for Professional Use.