A crucial part of science involves putting an animal into a situation and seeing how they handle it.

This came to a head during the space race, where teams from the United States and the Soviet Union worked as hard as they could to see just how many mammals we could confuse or kill by sending them off into the terrifying darkness of space.

Some of these tests involved bringing cats up into zero gravity and just, I don’t know, letting them float around. Here’s how they reacted when hit with the confusing mess that is zero Gs: