Flight director Ginger Kerrick says they are looking for him. “The way it was explained to me is that he is a backup spider and he has his own contained space on board and he had moved out of that area. We think he came out of his bedroom and is in the living room of his house.”
Kirk Shireman, deputy shuttle program manager, says that while only one spider is visible, that doesn’t mean the other is missing. ‘We don’t believe he has escaped the payload. I am sure we will find him spinning a web somewhere in the next few days.”
We know better. Judging by past experiences, it’ll probably end up in our house making a beeline for my co-blogger, as all spiders do.