Labels:text | screenshot | spider | invertebrate | insect | animal OCR: WORKING IN SPACE LIVING IN SPACE PERFORMING EXPERIMENTS Most experiments in space look at the effects of weightlessness and its possible uses. Astronauts take measurements from their bodies to discover how human beings react to life in a weightless environment. Among the creatures that have accompanied the human travelers to space are flies, frogs, newts, tadpoles, mice, and spiders. Once in orbit their growth and behavior are studied. Experiments to grow plants have aimed at providing food for possible SPACE SPIDER future space colonies. Unfortunately, these A spider spins a web on board Skylab, the US have proved to be rather unsuccessful so far.) space station. SPACE TECHNOLOGY SPACE TRAVEL LIVING IN SPACE
