60 years ago this week, a cat named Felicit became the first feline in space.

What's your cat up to?

Of course, sometimes you find out and maybe you're a little bit shocked by what the camera

reveals.

We'll peek in on the secret life of cats.

It's Thursday, October 19th, and today is Science Friday.

I'm Sci-Fi producer Charles Bergquest.

In October of 1963, the French space program launched Black and White Kitty Felicit on a rocket

for a 13-minute suborbital flight.

She returned safely to Earth, but sadly was euthanized two months later, so researchers could

examine her brain.

Now, your cat might not be zooming to space when you're not looking, but what does she really

do all day?

We're dipping into the Sci-Fi archives for this conversation from 2019.

Here's Ira.

Our feline friends spend quite a lot of time outside of our line of sight, either napping

or bathing or playing or hunting, but that's merely speculation because we don't know

what they're doing.

So, to get the data, researchers need to catch them in the act on camera.

They need cat cams, and that's what they did.

My next guest recently published a study where she successfully tracked the movements of 16

outdoor domestic cats to find out what they were up to.

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