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Astronauts Watch Space Spiders Weave Wild Webs

space.com — A pair of orb weaver spiders flying aboard the International Space Station have fought a battle with weightlessness and lost.

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  • MorganMghee, on 11/18/2008, -0/+4I'm sorry, was this an experiment or an accidental stow away? Since they came with a supply of fruit fly food, I'm guessing not an accident. So why, then, are we depending on a picture from a handheld camera that the user 'hopes will turn out'? Why aren't there 6 video camera's on the thing, feeding a 3-d diagram into a computer? This bit made me feel better (/s)

    So far, there's been only one problem. Astronauts could only find one of the space spiders inside their habitat.
    "We're not missing a spider," space station flight director Holly Ridings assured reporters
    The wayward spider is definitely not running amuck inside the space station, NASA said
    "We don't believe that it's escaped the overall payload enclosure," said Kirk Shireman
  • diggface5000, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2It's like snakes on a plane. only with spiders. in space.
  • c010rb1indusa, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2Damn, anyone jelous of the space spiders?

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