In 1984, NASA Sent 3000 Bees Into Space Aboard the Challenger Shuttle for a Unique Student Experiment: These Bees Managed to Build Honeycombs and Lay Eggs in Zero Gravity.

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The experiment sought to check whether bees could build honeycombs without the influence of gravity.

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Space shuttles typically carry satellites, telescopes, or other scientific instruments. In April 1984, NASA's Challenger carried a much smaller, but more...lively cargo: a colony of bees. More...

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In April 1984, one of NASA's space shuttles carried a colony of honey bees. According to NASA's official report on the STS-41-C mission, the Challenger space shuttle launched from the Kennedy Space Center on April 6, 1984 with a student experiment designed to find out if bees could still build honeycombs if nothing attracted them to the ground, writes The The Economic Times. It landed on April 13. The bee colony was not the shuttle's main cargo.…

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In 1984, NASA sent a swarm of about 3,300 bees into the Space Shuttle to conduct a zero-gravity nest-building experiment, with the aim of observing whether bees could still build a hive in an environment without gravity.