When it comes to space flight, who were Arabella, Anita, and Miss Baker?

Sofie

Animals in space: "After the manned lunar landing of Apollo 11, the role of animals was limited to the status of "biological payload." The range of species broadened to include rabbits, turtles, insects, spiders, fish, jellyfish, amoebae, and algae. Although they were still used in tests dealing with long-range health effects in space, tissue development, and mating in a zero-g environment, etc., animals no longer made the front pages. One exception to this was one of the last Apollo flights, Skylab 3, which launched on July 28, 1973. On board were Anita and Arabella, two common Cross spiders. Tests were set up to record the spiders' successful attempts to spin webs in space..." http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html Miss Baker was a monkey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_in_space Feb 07 07, 9:20 AM