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MOSCOW, April 7 Cosmonauts in the future will be able to take their pets, including cats, with them on flights, says Maxim Kharlamov, head of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (CTC) .
«It seems to me that they can, like any pet that cosmonauts will be able to take with them in the future,» Kharlamov answered on the air on the page «Movement of the First» on the social network «VKontakte» to the question whether they will ever be able to some cats and cats go to space.
Dogs are considered one of the pioneers of space. Turtles, various rodents and insects, amphibians also visited the orbit (as passengers of various biosatellites). The USA, USSR, France and other countries launched monkeys into orbit in the last century.

