Spider attacks shuttle

A giant spider recently attacked the space shuttle Atlantis on the launch pad. Or so it appears in this clip from NASA TV.
Link (Thanks, Kirsten Anderson!)

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I CAN HAS SPACESHIP / DIS SPACESHIP IT HAS A FLAVR

(the second one is funnier if you watch the video)
Halloween Jack

Now the shuttle can do whatever a spider can; space elevators coming right up…
Irene Delse

Thanks Nasa and the anonymous spider for reenacting a famous scene from Tintin’s “the Shooting Star”!
Lone

Could be wrong, but it looks like a jumping spider. They always end up in the most curious and humorous places.
C White

I’m reminded of Tintin in The Shooting Star thinking there was a giant spider traveling through space on the meteor, while it was merely a tiny spider crawling across the lens of the giant telescope.
joe holmes

That is a jumping spider, clearly the Audacious Jumping Spider, Phidippus Audax, I used to keep those in a terrarium when I was young…
planettom

I for one welcome our new arachnid overlords.
Registrado

WE WILL FIGHT
AND WE WILL WIN!

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Boxcar Aldous Huxley

This finally PROVES that the entire Space Program has been an elaborately staged government psy-op…
ill lich

I look forward to toiling in their underground sugar caves.

mmmmm . . . sugar!
OM

…Well, just goes to show you that despite all the refurbs and upgrades, NASA still hasn’t gotten all the bugs out of the Shuttle program.
Benjamin

NOM NOM NOM
Pudd

It reminds me of that time in 2005 that a giant fly attacked Mount St. Helens!
JohnnyWeird

Spiders from Mars! Where’s Ziggy Stardust when you need him?!
ArtDecoAutomaton

joking aside, thats a frickin’ big spider!
bangbangblog.info

The flies erupting from Mt. Saint Helens are growing bigger by the year. Spin your web, shuttle spider, for all it’s worth.

scarifier craterfly #2
nabru

*Enter Simpson’s Joke Here*
SAE Miller

I knew one day the alien space spider species would attack our methods of space junk spreading.