When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When it comes to animals that heroically blasted off into space during the space race, names like ...

A surprising number of animals have been to space including dogs, monkeys, tortoises, and obviously those pesky Homo sapiens. You might not know, however, that a cat has also gone to space – and a new ...

The first cat to launch into space and live to meow about it is getting her own monument — thanks to the crowdfunded support of more than 1,100 of her fans. A campaign on the website Kickstarter on ...

Félicette, a former stray who was sent into space by French researchers in 1963, now has a bronze statue in her honor at France's International Space University. Public Domain Félicette, the only cat ...

Unlike her canine and simian counterparts, the world's only feline astronaut does not have any lasting commemoration or grave site. A Kickstarter campaign seeks to change that by planning a ...

An Oregon cat lover has vowed to memorialize his late feline friend Pikachu by sending the dead cat’s cremated remains into space so it can orbit the planet and eventually fall back toward earth, ...