He didn't make the crew list.
Floki runs X. Cali runs Grok. Doge runs Doge. SpaceX never got a dog.
Houston applied for the job — filled in the form, signed it, attached a photo. Nobody replied.
Then he read the crew manifest for Flight 14 and his name wasn't on it.
The last dogs in orbit came home in March 1966. Sixty years, and nobody has sent one since.
Today that changes — not because anyone gave permission, but because he stopped asking.
He doesn't have a seat. He has a handle on the outside.
