> Worse was to follow. Two months after her trip into space, Félicette was put down so that scientists could study her body to determine if she had suffered any

> Worse was to follow. Two months after her trip into space, Félicette was put down so that scientists could study her body to determine if she had suffered any anatomical or physiological damage. They later concluded that they had learned nothing of any use from the autopsy. Given their starting point at least they learned that she wasn't full of embolisms, space-tumors, or some other illness that they didn't have the experience to imagine. A negative result was a real advance.