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Spiders

What did he do with spiders? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.169.113.63 (talk • contribs) 22:57, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- See Skylab spider experiment. Viriditas (talk) 13:26, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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NASA fellowship for?

" Garriott received a NASA fellowship for [an unspecified word is missing here in the article text] in the Space Station Project Office" SalineBrain (talk) 09:44, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]