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Tel Aviv U., U.S. Sends
Hornets Into. Space
When 180 Oriental hornets
are rocketed into Earth's orbit
during the summer of 1986, Tel
Aviv University Prof. Jacob
Ishay is convinced, there is no
chance that they will escape in-
side the space shuttle.
They will not sting the as-
tronauts with their poisonous
venom. The hornets, says Ishay,
will be contained securely inside
a metal locker.
The hornets will be sent into
space for a study of how they
adapt to near-weightless condi-
tions — an environment in
which gravity is a thousandth or
less of that on Earth. By study-
ing the insects' behavior Ishay
hopes to learn how humans can
cope better with space sickness,
an unusual malady that has
caused more than one - third of
the astronauts to suffer from
headaches, nausea and_weak-
ness.
professor _ of
a
Ishay,
entomology at Tel Aviv Univer-
sity, met with University of
Pennsylvania biologists recently
to discuss his research.
During an interview, he said
Oriental hornets were being
used because of their unusual
ability — not found in humans
or other mammals — to detect
tiny amounts of gravitation and
react to them.
Among the questions Ishay
hopes to answer as a result of
his hornet mission are:
• Will the hornets work to-
gether, as they do on Earth, or
will they become disoriented
and abandon their cooperative
instincts?
• W ill the hornet's unhatched
young, or pupae, still emit a
"hunger signal" — a rhythmic
beat emerging from the comb
when they are hungry — in
space?
Ishay, 54, said the hornets
were expected to be sent up
sometime between July and Oc-
tober 1986. His shuttle project
will mark the first time that the
Israel Space Agency and the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) have
collaborated on a space mission.
Ishay said the hornets would
be enclosed in a box about the
size of a large typewriter case
that will be stationed on the
middeck, near the front of the
space shuttle.
Ten hornets would be enclosed
in each of 18 compartments in-
side the metal locker. The tem-
perature will be kept at about
84 degrees — a condition the
hornets are used to in their
natural habitat of the Middle
East, East Africa and India.
Ishay said he was not worried
that the hornets would die in
space, because of their unusual
abilities to adapt. In laboratory
experiments, they have survived
up to 500 times the gravity
found on Earth, he said.
Contrary to the case on some
past shuttle flights, NASA offi-
cials are not requiring the Tel
Aviv University professor to
remove the hornets' stingers —
even though the venom of 40 to
50 Oriental hornets is potent
enough to kill a person.
"Oriental hornets are one of
the most dangerous types of
hornets," Ishay said. "But don't
worry. There is no chance that
they will be able to escape."
Project Renewal Draws
Mixed Reviews In Report
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ated in 84 Israeli neighborhoods
in need of rehabilitation. Of the
close to $500 million expended
for this purpose, some 60 per-
cent came from the government,
and 40 percent from com-
munities abroad. The undertak-
ing has been given great public-
ity. But how successful has it
really been?
One study, limited only to the
administrative structure and
procedural operations of the
project and carried out by an
internal controller's committee
of the Jewish Agency itself, was
said to expose glaring deficien-
cies. However, that report was
locked up in a cabinet and not
published.
So it was good news when the
Samuel Neaman Institute for
Advanced Studies in Science
and Technology, located at the
Technion, was commissioned to
undertake an objective survey.
A staff of eight professionals has
spent more than two years on
the undertaking.
The Neaman Institute scien-
tists, headed by research coor-
dinator Prof. M. Hill, decided to
concentrate on four areas: Who
benefitted from all the money
spent? To what extent was there
participation by the residents of
the areas involved? Did the
project indeed make a contribu-
tion, or did it simply relieve the
government of tasks it should
have undertaken anyhow
(known as budget displace-
ment)? What changes have
taken place in the neighbor-
hoods?
Ten representative com-
munities were selected for
study. Ramle, sponsored by De-
troit, was not one of these, but
the overall findings are similar.
At the outset it -was noted
that the project officials had a
conception of priorities different
from those of the local residents.
The professionals rated as first
in importance the raising of the
residents' self-image and out-