The flight responses of common houseflies, velvetbean caterpillar moths, and worker honeybees were observed and filmed for a period of about 25 minutes in a zero-g environment during the third flight of the Space Shuttle Vehicle (flight number STS-3; March 22-30, 1982). Twelve fly puparia, 24 adult moths, 24 moth pupae, and 14 adult bees were loaded into an insect flight box, which was then stowed aboard the Shuttle Orbiter, the night before the STS-3 launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The main purpose of the experiment was to observe and compare the flight responses of the three species of insects, which have somewhat different flight control mechanisms, under zero-g conditions.


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    Title :

    Nsta-NASA Shuttle Student Involvement Project. Experiment Results: Insect Flight Observation at Zero Gravity


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    Publication date :

    1982


    Size :

    68 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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