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Sundays With Tabs the Cat, Makeup and Beauty Blog Mascot, Vol. 568

August 25th, 2019 by Karen 7 Comments

A lot of people don’t know how important cats were to the space race. They call it the final frontier, but the “feline frontier” is more accurate.

In fact, some of the greatest astronauts in history were cats.

Like Tabs. He was the first American to orbit the Earth wearing a feather boa, and that was just one of his many astronomical feline fashion firsts.

He also created the uniforms for CASA, the Cat Aeronautics and Space Administration, and started the agency’s toddler outreach program to cultivate the next generation of cat ladies and cat men.



NASA was about 20 years behind CASA in exploring the solar system, too. Of course the government covered it up, but in 2012 when the Curiosity Rover landed on Mars, cat astronauts from CASA were already there.

They even had a cat café.

Tabs was such a huge fan of space and the space program because it ran in his family. This was kept from the history books, but his great, great, great, great grandcat was the youngest cat to do a spacewalk. ???

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Sundays With Tabs the Cat, Makeup and Beauty Blog Mascot, Vol. 568 / Originally published August 25th, 2019

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  1. L says

    August 25th, 2019 at 11:50 pm

    As always, sweet, clever, and pulling the heartstrings. Wha happen to da gravy?! Gravyty . . . ? I’m

    Love, hugs –
    L
    ❤️

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  2. L says

    August 25th, 2019 at 11:53 pm

    P.S.
    Don’t know how the “I’m” got in there . . I was done!

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  3. Anne says

    August 26th, 2019 at 5:39 am

    Oh no, I hope he found a way to save the gravy! Well, it was Tabs, of course he did.

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  4. Mary Ann says

    August 26th, 2019 at 3:01 pm

    That B&W pic of Tabs on the moon…he has this look of “who’d you’d expect to see here?” Love it.

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  5. Mel. B. says

    August 26th, 2019 at 3:55 pm

    Love, love, love the pic of Tabs & Conner Claire!!!

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  6. Kim says

    August 27th, 2019 at 7:21 am

    I love all the pics but the Gravity definitely made me laugh. Tabs wanted that gravy! 🙂

    Reply
  7. Sandy says

    August 27th, 2019 at 12:37 pm

    You know the original Curiosity Rover was the Curiosity Kitty!

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