As astronaut Don Pettit showed us during his Science off the
Sphere video series, you can do a lot of cool things in space's
microgravity environment. So what science experiments would you
conduct aboard the International Space Station, given the
chance? NASA, the European Space Agency and several other
sponsors posed that question to high school students from around
the world for the Youtube Spacelab Competition. After paring
down Youtube video submissions from students, two winning
experiments were chosen to be completed on the ISS. Today, the
students got to see the results from their experiments beamed
down to Earth via a live, streaming broadcast hosted by Bill
Nye. One experiment tested the virulence of bacteria from miles
above the surface. But the subject of the second winning
experiment might inspire a new Samuel L. Jackson blockbuster:
jumping spiders on a space station. Image Courtesy NASA. Amr
Mohamed, a high school student from Egypt, wondered what would
happen if the Zebra Jumping Spider were ta