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The Spider's Web Held the Clock That Saved Skylab
A spider named Arabella spins a web aboard a crippled Skylab while engineers race to prove a half-disabled Apollo can bring three men home.
The Spider's Web Held the Clock That Saved Skylab
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events aboard Skylab in 1973: a damaged station, a cramped crew, a student experiment, and a failing return vehicle. What choices and calculations did NASA make while a spider kept weaving above Earth?
Person: Arabella
Event: Skylab second crew mission
Date: 1973
Location: Skylab, 435 kilometers above Earth
- Arabella and another garden spider, Anita, were part of…
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