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Ilan Ramon, STS-107 payload specialist, works with the Space Technology and Research Students (STARS) educational payload housed in an Isothermal Containment Module (ICM) in the SPACEHAB Research Double Module aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. The STARS payload includes the following experiments: The Chemical Garden sponsored by Israel, Astrospiders - Spiders in Space sponsored by Australia, Silkworm Lifecycle During Space Flight sponsored by China, Flight of the Medaka Fish sponsored by Japan, Carpenter Bees in Space sponsored by Liechtenstein, and Ant Colony sponsored by the United States. Ramon represents the Israeli Space Agency.