Two common cross spiders (Araneus diadematus) named Anita and Arabella went into space with NASA astronauts on a Skylab mission in 1973. They were part of an experiment devised by high school student Judith Miles to test whether weightlessness would affect a spider’s ability to spin a web. Both spiders spun webs in space once they’d acclimated to their extraterrestrial environment. After they died, their bodies were placed in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian.
The Saturn V rocket was the launch vehicle for Skylab and which other NASA space program?
A) Apollo
B) Gemini
C) Mercury
D) Voyager
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