Five Israeli teen-agers helped create an experiment involving crystals that rocketed into orbit Thursday aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle Columbia. The Israeli youths, from the ORT Kiryat Motzkin School, range in age from 14 to 17. Their experiment studies how zero gravity affects the development of crystals.
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