Column: Spiders in space

MORNING SENTINEL • January 27, 2021

Weird things happen in outer space. Weightlessness is, by all accounts, the strangest new world for astronauts. What would happen if you plunked spiders into that weird environment? It’s been tried three times in the U.S. space program. The space webs were generally less regular than webs built in Earth gravity, and the regularity of webs decreased during the experiment.