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Fun fact: This was in fact a parabolic flight. NASA was trying to figure out how horses would behave on the ISS and if they can be used as emotional support animals for stressed out astronauts.
I want this to be true.
Name checks out.
i want this to be false.
it would be animal abuse
I'd suggest a sloth, instead. I feel like a sloth would get along just fine in zero-G.
Alright Bud, you go ahead and argue with Commander Williams, why he is not allowed to take his emotional support horsie on that space station.
There's a horsieeeee
Who's heading for the Sun
He'd like to be back home
With a box of apples for everyone
https://youtu.be/a_EDpth9xvU
I cannot imagine the vet bill were that true.
We'd better get a Space Cowboys movie out of this!
for the uninitiated
Shoot out at the meo corral.
Why...pray tell...would anyone want to know how horses would behave on the ISS? You couldn't even fit a horse in that thing!
Space stallions.