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Word: spiderwort (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1967-1967
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Surveyor's dramatic recovery overshadowed another space venture involving 1,000 vinegar gnats, 1,000 flour beetles, 560 wasps, 120 frog eggs, 875 amoebae, 13,000 bacteria cells, 78 wheat seedlings, nine pepper plants, 10 million spores of orange bread mold and 64 blue spiderwort. All this was packed aboard a space ark called Biosatellite 2 and launched into earth orbit from Cape Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ark in Orbit | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

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