Wait, What Was Step Three Again?

Congratulations, rocketeer! Just follow these simple instructions, and your X-500 Mega Rocket will be ready to hurtle into the cosmos!

  1. Attach stabilizer fins (a) to first-stage fuselage (b)
  2. Load fuel canister (c)
  3. Insert cat (d) into second-stage nose cone unit (e)
  4. Attach first-stage unit to second-stage unit
  5. Light fuse (f)


“All Carbon” by Flickr user Steve Jurvetson.

60 comments … read them below or add one

  1. 260Oakley says:

    Fuzz Aldrin, catstronaut

  2. skippymom says:

    WTF?

  3. Beckah says:

    *pushes glasses up onto bridge of nose and dons lab coat* Hmmmm we’re gonna need more kittehs…

  4. Teresa says:

    :lol: That kitty looks like he/she wants to know what his/her owner plans to do with this rocket once it is assembled :lol:

  5. BB/VA says:

    He looks as if he is comparing himself to the rocket to see if he will fit. Or maybe he doesn’t want to fit and is making sure he doesn’t.

  6. mindadale says:

    Kitty says,”Black stripey stuff lays out on the warm concrete to be admired? Okay, I can get on board with that.” (Just as long as I don’t have to get “on board”…)

  7. Kitty is thinking..”really what are you so involved with that Thing for… I am here, see how beautiful i am..you Know you would rather play with me”.

  8. Theresa says:

    Well, after the arrival of Tacocopter I was hoping the next step would be Rockitty. :P

  9. gizmo says:

    Ground control to Major Tom(cat)

  10. hmstracylee says:

    what page is this on in the ACME catalog?

  11. HP says:

    And the cat came back,
    The very next day,
    The cat came back, they thought he was a goner,
    But the cat came back,
    Just wouldn’t stay away, away, away, away . . .

  12. Gigi says:

    Wait, where do you put the dilithium crystals?

  13. Fird Birfle says:

    Should that not have been “roC(k)ATeer”??? ;)

    Signed,
    Mischevious

  14. Rachael says:

    Houston, we have a problem.

  15. This reminds me of an on-line invention of a friend of happy memory from years ago:
    The ACME Lawnchair Rocket Launcher!!!

  16. gizmo says:

    I can haz astronaut training?

  17. trixandsam says:

    Who needs step 1 (attach stabilizer fins) when you have a kitteh with a tail like that? Talk about an optimal aerodynamic control mechanism!

  18. kar says:

    Is it me or does that look like really, really big disassembled pen?

  19. Saffron says:

    Anyone who has had cats tearing across your bed at 5 am knows they need no rocket to achieve mach 10.

    That cat is gorgeous!

  20. Xia says:

    You gotta love how cats always have to lay in the middle of whatever project you happen to be working on.

  21. Alice Shortcake says:

    Ooh, the cat’s eyes match the fuselage!

  22. paular27 says:

    I believe that is a misuse of a perfectly good kitty.

  23. sugitomo says:

    I always knew that cat was plotting something. *gives leery eyes to feline*

  24. Ali-Baba says:

    Purrher von Braun says, “Actually, it IS rocket science!”

  25. kibblenibble says:

    This is a flooftacular and handsome kitteh. Evidence: Tail and tummeh region. Check it!

  26. happy says:

    Am I the only one who puts this in the same category as critter-in-a-blender/stove pot/microwave oven?? At least the idiots who might actually attempt probably aren’t drawn to cuteness…

  27. dmaufer says:

    Is this kitty perchance named Alice? (to the moon……)

  28. Coel says:

    Oh so that how you make scat missile.

  29. elishab says:

    I call matchings!!!! Or close enough…….
    too cute :lol:

  30. pookie says:

    Kitty has the classic, “Wait…what now?” face.

  31. snoopysnake says:

    DH says this requires an IKEA name. Okay, Kattrokkit.

  32. Godspeed, Space Cat!

  33. Lee says:

    Wow, the picture taker is Steve Jurvetson of the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

  34. Carolyn says:

    Sorry…I can’t find the cuteness in teasing about skyrocketing a cat. But…that is one gorgeous kitty. :)