One Thing Space Agencies Must Watch Out for Now: Cats
Operating a mission is a labyrinthian process from start to finish, with all kinds of checks and fail-safes along the way.
Daniel Lakey was in the middle of an important meeting when an unauthorized participant decided to chime in.
“He appeared at the door, jumped on the table, meowed in my face, walked across the keyboard, put his furry ass in my face, and eventually curled up sweetly on the desk next to the laptop,” Lakey recounted to me recently.
It was Sparkle, Lakey’s fluffy brown-and-white cat. Sparkle stuck around for the rest of the virtual meeting, in fact, mewing every time Lakey stopped petting him.
Like many people in the pandemic era, Lakey is doing his job , with a new set of colleagues who might be less cooperative than his usual ones; his
