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Spiders to Test Webs in Skylab Weightless Flight
NASA will launch spiders with the Skylab crew to study web spinning in zero gravity. The female cross spider will be placed in cages aboard Skylab after a seven hour trip. Water will be given, no food, and cameras will relay images to Earth for analysis by Dr. Peter Witt.
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Skylab
Space Station
Earth
Space
Peter Witt
Witt
Judith Miles
Lexington
Mass
NASA
Ruth Scarboro
Raleigh, North Carolina
Dr. Witt