NASA Photo ID: S73-34456           File Name: 10076303.jpg
Film Type: 35mm BW                 Date Taken: 09/25/73
Title: Personnel in Mission Control examine replica of spider habitat from Skylab 3
Description:
Flight Director Neil B. Hutchinson, left, and Astronaut Bruce McCandless II 
hold up a glass enclosure - home for the spider Arachne, which is the same 
species as the two spiders carried on the Skylab 3 mission. The real spider 
is the one barely visible at the upper right corner of the square; the
larger  one is a projected image on the rear-screen-projected map in the
front of the  Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) of the Mission Control
Center (MCC).  McCandless served as backup pilot for the first manned
Skylab mission and was  a spacecraft-communicater (CAPCOM) for the second
crew.              
Subject terms:
CONSOLES                                
FACILITIES                              
FLIGHT CONTROL                          
GROUND BASED CONTROL                    
HABITATS                                
INSECTS                                 
INTEGRATED MISSION CONTROL CENTER       
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER                    
PERSONNEL                               
SKYLAB 3                                
SKYLAB PROGRAM                          
SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS                  
TEXAS                                   

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