NASA Photo ID: STS047-02-018       File Name: 10064948.jpg
  Film Type: 35mm                    Date Taken: 09/20/92
  Title: STS-47 MS Davis and Pilot Brown monitor ISAIAH on OV-105's middeck
  Description:
  STS-47 Mission Specialist (MS) N. Jan Davis (left) and Pilot Curtis L.
  Brown,  Jr, monitor the Israel Space Agency Investigation About Hornets
  (ISAIAH) on  the middeck of Endeavour, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 105. ISAIAH, an
  enclosure  located in locker MF43H, contains 180 female Oriental Hornets
  and will  examine the effects of microgravity on the orientation,
  reproductive  capability and social activity of the hornets.  Also, the
  direction of  comb-building by hornet workers in microgravity, as well as
  the structural  integrity of the combs, will be examined.              
  
  Subject terms:
  ASTRONAUTS                              
  CREW EXPERIMENT STATIONS                
  CREWS                                   
  ENDEAVOUR (ORBITER)                     
  INSECTS                                 
  MIDDECK                                 
  SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS                  
  STS-47
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