Space Station Live: Ants in Space

NASA Public Affairs Officer Dan Huot talks with Professor Deborah M. Gordon of Stanford University, who is the principal investigator for the Ants in Space experiment aboard the International Space Station. This experiment arrived at the space station Sunday aboard Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus cargo spacecraft. The Ants in Space study examines the behavior of ants by comparing groups living on Earth to those in space. The idea is that ant interactions are dependent upon the number of ants in an area. M