A small box of honeybees once became an unusual passenger aboard the space shuttle Discovery. In 1984, Nasa sent thousands of honeybees into orbit to see how they would behave when gravity was no longer guiding their movements.

In April 1984, NASA's STS-41-C mission took a colony of honeybees into space to study their ability to build honeycomb in microgravity, revealing important insights into their…

A small box of honeybees once became an unusual passenger aboard the space shuttle Discovery. In 1984, Nasa sent thousands of honeybees into orbit to see how they would behave…