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Dr. Greg Vogt demonstrates how easy it is to build a spider habitat using inexpensive materials.

Spiders in Space: Astro-nids in Flight. My Fox Houston news feature about the Spiders in Space project, with interviews of Nancy Moreno, PhD, and Greg Vogt, EdD.

Watch astronaut Cady Coleman describe the installation of the spiders' habitats on ISS.

Watch the History of Space Shuttle Endeavour produced by NASA.

Video clip of Thelma, a Nephila clavipes orb weaver spider, catching a fruit fly.

Video clip of Thelma, a Nephila clavipes orb weaver spider, catching fruit flies.

Esmerelda, a "spidernaut" aboard the International Space Station, builds a web in microgravity.

Esmerelda, a "spidernaut" aboard the International Space Station, consumes fruit flies she has captured in her web.

Esmerelda, a "spidernaut" aboard the International Space Station, tears down a web she's built in microgravity.

A control ("ground") spider from the Spiders in Space investigation builds her web.

Esmerelda, a "spidernaut aboard the International Space Station, goes on a feeding frenzy after mass hatchings of fruit flies

Gladys, a "spidernaut" aboard the International Space Station, spins, eats, and attacks her molt in space!

Timed photos from Habitat 1, containing a Nephila clavipes orb weaver spider, water and its food source (fruit flies), aboard the ISS.

Timed photos from Habitat 2, containing a Nephila clavipes orb weaver spider, water and its food source (fruit flies), aboard the ISS.

Metepeira labyrinthea, on board the ISS during the pilot "Spiders" Mission in 2008.

Orb weaver spiders in their habitats aboard the ISS, part of the 2008 pilot Butterflies and Spiders in Space project (NASA Mission STS-126).