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Asked by Charlotte on 15 Jan 2020. This question was also asked by DoctorM27.
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Craig Leff answered on 15 Jan 2020:
Unfortuantely, no one can take their pets into space — that means astronauts and any future space tourists. However, animals have gone into space: dogs, cats, and monkeys were sent before humans went up, to make sure it was (sort of) safe. Later, animals went up on the space shuttle and the International Space Station: rats, spiders, newts, and frogs, to name a few. If you want to go REALLY far back, when hot air balloons were being invented in the 1780s, cows(!), ducks, and chickens were sent up to see how they would react (probably pretty scared!). I don’t have a dog at the moment, but I do have a cat and tortoises.
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Abbie Hutty answered on 20 Jan 2020:
Not at the moment, but maybe in the future under some kind of space tourism trip. I think they’d be pretty scared though as you wouldn’t be able to explain to them that they were going to float and not to panic about that! It’s a kind of instinct when you’re weightless to “swim” – to flail your arms and legs around as your body thinks it’s falling and tries to find something to hang onto- and dogs and cats would probably do that too, but not know that they need to calm down and stop – so they might hurt or exhaust themselves doing that endlessly!
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