A spider and its web inside the Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus Science Insert-05 (CSI-05) spider habitat aboard the International Space Station. Launched with the STS-134 mission aboard space shuttle Endeavour to the space station in 2011, CSI-05 allowed researchers to observe spiders in a microgravity environment. Two Golden Orb Spiders (Nephila clavipes), were flown aboard the space station in a special habitat. This allowed researchers to study the spiders' web-spinning practices to see if that behavior or the characteristics of the web they produced would change over time. The habitat's cameras collected imagery throughout the spiders' time in microgravity to document any differences between those in space and the same type of spiders on the ground. As it turns out, the golden orb spiders' behavior did not change greatly in microgravity. Their webs looked much like webs spun on Earth, though in space the webs were more circular.