A team of New York high school students (with help from Syracuse University researchers) launched 15 ants with the space shuttle Columbia, hoping to learn how space's extremely low gravity might affect the ants' behaviour. The ants were launched into space on 16th January 2003, however Columbia was destroyed during re-entry on 1st February 2003 and all seven crew members were killed. Read more about the project (written pre-distatser) on the Nat Geo website.
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