Felicette is the world’s first astronaut pussy. The feline took place in the rocket "Véronique" which was launched, on October 18, 1963, from Hammaguir (base of Colomb-Béchar). It is then recovered in the capsule, after the success of the experiment.
Interview of General Grandpierre (Director of the Laboratory of Physics and Aeronautics), by the journalist Georges Jouin, on the interest of sending a cat, and more gloriously an animal in space.
The INA Galaxy 
