On Sunday NASA again delayed launching the shuttle Atlantis, claiming a problem with a fuel sensor guage. However, we have video that shows us what really happened that Sunday. Click on this photo:

A giant spider jumped onto the shuttle and proceeded to attack it. For a moment there it looked to me like it was gobbling the shuttle up. And it’s definitely a jumping spider (family Salticidae), probably in the genus Phidippus.

The other theory is that the spider was just walking on the camera lens, but we all know that would not have delayed the launch.