Training Of Animals For Space Flight (1961)

Paris, France. Documentation on file. Various shots taken at the French Air Force’s special Space Research Centre in Paris, of a rat nicknamed Hector who is to be sent up into space in the future in the missile “Veronique“. The story shows the rat being fitted with special space suit, and being put into centrifugal machine to enable the rat to encounter the same movement as in space flight. (Mute. F.G.) Note: some people may find this distressing. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.