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Animal astronauts have included monkeys, dogs, mice, and even fruit flies.

Most are fondly remembered, except maybe the flies.

Laika, the dog, has a monument in her honor in Moscow.

Ham the Chimpanzee is buried with a proper plaque at the International Space Hall of Fame in New Mexico.

So where's the love for Phyllisette?

That's what Matthew Serge Guy wants to know.

He's a creative director at the Marketing Agency, Anomily London, and he's heading an effort to fund a statue

for Phyllisette, the first cat in space.

Felicette briefly strutted into headlines when she took her short flight in 1963.

At the time, the effects of launches and weightlessness on the human body were still poorly

understood.

So a group of French scientists decided to observe what happens to a floating cat.

Felisette was chosen from a group of 14 intensively space-trained cats.

It was either her calm demeanor or sleek physique that made her the winner.

She was hooked up with electrodes and rocketed to an altitude of nearly

100 miles. After experiencing weightlessness for about five minutes, she parachuted back down

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