This Day In Deals: A pet tracker to stop the French firing your cat into space

This Day In Deals is our new section where we share a historical fact and the day’s best deal – and try to connect them. The aim? To enrich ourselves financially, and you spiritually. Meet Félicette. In France on October 18 1963, Félicette became the first cat launched into space. Even more impressively, she was the only cat to actually survive space flight. God bless you, Félicette. She was one of a group of cats who, as Space.com reported, “went through the same intensive training as human astronauts.” Which I somehow doubt, but hey. It wasn’t all plain sailing for her though, as the animals also…

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