WASHINGTON – The National Museum of Natural History announced that Nefertiti, the “spidernaut” died Monday before the museum opened to the public. A member of the Insect Zoo staff discovered the ...
The Smithsonian's exhibition of the first jumping spider to survive the trip to space has turned out to be short lived: The arachnid astronaut died just days after going on display. "It is with ...
The new Sant Director of the National Museum of Natural History, Kirk Johnson, had only been on the job for 26 days when he got an urgent message about a special mission: retrieve the world’s first ...
Plucky space spider Nefertiti, nicknamed "Spidernaut" after accompanying astronauts on a 100-day trip to the International Space Station, has died shortly after her return to Earth. On show at the ...
It is with sadness that the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History announces the death of Nefertiti, the “Spidernaut.” “Neffi” was introduced to the public Thursday, Nov. 29, after traveling ...
One hundred days in outer space wasn’t enough to kill “Neffi” the spider, but a simple trip to Washington, D.C., proved enough to do the trick. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and ...
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