Spider Payload on Space Station Becomes a Media Hit, Internet Music Video

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 17:49 in Astronomy & Space

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder payload of web-spinning spiders and wannabe butterflies delivered to the International Space Station by the space shuttle Endeavour Nov. 14 has generated a buzz among scientists, astronauts, the news media and has even spawned an Internet video set to the music of "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider."

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