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    What was the first experiment suggested by a high school student to fly aboard the shuttle?

    Question #85911. Asked by ALASKA03. (Sep 16 07 1:33 AM)


    zbeckabee

    		Insects: honey bees, moths, house flies


    http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/astronauts/trivia.html


    (See LIFTOFF HOME to go back to NASA's home page.

    Sep 16 07, 3:32 AM
    queproblema

    		Well, what was the experiment?

    Sep 16 07, 3:39 PM
    lanfranco

    		I'm not aware that a "high school student" has ever flown aboard any one of the Space Shuttles.

    I think the question meant, "What was the first experiment suggested by a high school student to be carried out on the Space Shuttle?" I can't say what was the first, but if we're talking about bees, then the fifth Challenger mission, in 1984, demonstrated that honeybees can construct a honeycomb in zero gravity just as well as they do on Earth:



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-41-C

    Sep 16 07, 5:53 PM

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