A Spidernaut Spent 100 Days in Space and Returned Home a Hero

She did it ! A stick out spider call Nefertiti go all the fashion to blank for 100 days , hung out on the ISS , and now the little spidernaut has re - put down our atmosphere . She has officially hang up her space courting and retired to a quiet lifetime in the Insect Zoo at the National Museum of Natural History .

Above is a television of Neffi aboard the ISS in her impermanent home . She probably lack it , but like possess other aging dirt ball friends to play span with . Here ’s how the first climb up wanderer to go to blank and successfully reset to life on the blue planetdid it :

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This is awesome . You know what else is awesome ? Imagining Neffi escaping undetected while aboard the ISS , and an astronaut with severe arachnophobia fall upon her crawling around the place . [ NMNHh / t@Smithsonian ]

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