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1969 demonstrative photos of a NASA study on cats to help develop techniques for astronauts to re-orient in zero-G
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So they are now breeding astronauts with hyper-flexible spines and much, much faster reflexes?
You should read Firefall, by Peter Watts.
In which they do do that, in a way that is simultaneously the most absurd you've ever read, and the most hard sci-fi credible. Mostly so they can hibernate iirc.