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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 432

Space Shuttle Columbia

From left, Bob Cabana, Associate Administrator of NASA; Sheryl Chaffee, daughter of Apollo 1 astronaut Roger Chaffee, and Janet Petro, NASA KSC director, bow their heads in prayer during NASA's Day of Remembrance ceremony, hosted by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Thursday, January 26, 2023. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
January 29, 2023, 8:38 am
NASA marks 20 years to Columbia disaster that killed 7, including Israeli Ilan Ramon
Rabbi recalls how Israel’s first astronaut had inquired about keeping Shabbat in space: ‘Ilan taught us, no matter how fast we’re going, to think about why we’re here on Earth’
By Marcia Dunn
Sharon Brown (Courtesy)
March 19, 2021, 1:26 am
Trailblazing forensics expert who decrypted Ilan Ramon diary retires from force
British-born Sharon Brown wraps up 31-year career with Israel Police ranging from cracking routine white-collar crime forgeries to deciphering damaged docs of national importance
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon. (NASA)
May 22, 2019, 2:14 am
New exhibit of astronaut Ilan Ramon diary opens at Israel Museum
Diary that survived space shuttle crash displayed alongside and compared to fragments of biblical Book of Enoch
By ToI Staff
President Reuven Rivlin, center left, and his wife Nechama, center right, with bereaved family of crew members from the Columbia space shuttle disaster, January 27, 2019. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
January 27, 2019, 6:24 pm
Rivlin hosts bereaved families of Columbia shuttle astronauts
President fulfills wish of deceased Israeli crew member’s wife, Rona Ramon, who had invited the visitors but died last month before they arrived
By Stuart Winer
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pays his respects to Rona Ramon, at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation in Tel Aviv, December 19, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 19, 2018, 1:09 pm
Israelis pay respects to Rona Ramon, hailed by Netanyahu as ‘hero of the spirit’
Students inspired by Ramon Foundation projects pay tribute to a woman who encouraged them to ‘look farther afield to create a better society’
By Melanie Lidman
Rona Ramon, widow of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, speaks at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Ilan and Asaf Ramon International Airport in southern Israel, on May 9, 2013. (Flash90)
December 18, 2018, 3:20 pm
Rona Ramon to be cremated to spare her kids another funeral — report
Body of widow of Israel’s only astronaut, who later lost a son in an army training accident, to lie in repose at Peres Peace Center in Jaffa
By ToI Staff
Rona Ramon, left, and her daughter Noa, in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on January 15, 2003, a day before the launch of the space shuttle Columbia. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)
December 17, 2018, 7:24 pm
Rona Ramon, widow of astronaut killed in Columbia shuttle disaster, dies at 54
Politicians mourn ‘inspirational’ woman, who turned to grief counseling and education when her tragedy was compounded with the death of her son — an IDF pilot — in 2009
By Michael Bachner
Tal Ramon, son of space shuttle Columbia astronaut Ilan Ramon, plays for the crowd Thursday, Jan 25, 2018, at Kennedy Space Center during NASA's annual day of remembrance in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP)
January 26, 2018, 7:57 am
With tribute by Israeli astronaut’s son, NASA honors 7 killed aboard Columbia
15 years after space shuttle disaster, son of Ilan Ramon plays his music at Florida memorial for fallen crew
By Marcia Dunn
Jeffrey Hoffman reads from the Torah aboard the space shuttle Columbia during a 1996 mission. (Courtesy of Hoffman)
December 30, 2016, 6:00 am
Space Torah: When the creation story flew back into the firmament
To read the divine among the stars, three holy scrolls have made the journey to outer space; only two returned safely
By Rich Tenorio
File: Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, stands in front of an F-16 fighter jet. Ramon perished in the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003, while re-entering the atmosphere. (Flash90)
February 2, 2016, 5:05 pm
Fragments from Ilan Ramon’s doomed space flight go on Israeli display
Exhibits loaned by NASA were used for space research by Israel’s first astronaut, killed in 2003 Columbia shuttle disaster
By Sue Surkes
Susan Marenoff-Zausner, President of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, speaks during the 70th Former Crew Member Reunion. (JP Teutonico)
December 29, 2015, 2:46 am
In NY, space to spark curiosity aboard the ‘USS Intrepid’
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum president Susan Marenoff-Zausner sees the WW II aircraft carrier and exhibits as a launching pad for future generations
By Cathryn J. Prince
In this Tuesday, July 21, 2015 photo, visitors look over display cases at the "Forever Remembered" exhibit and memorial for the astronauts that perished on the Columbia and Challenger space shuttles, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
August 4, 2015, 9:19 am
For first time, Challenger, Columbia wreckage go on display
NASA exhibit showcases debris from lost shuttles and personal reminders of the 14 astronauts killed, including Israeli Ilan Ramon and Jewish American Judith Resnik
By Marcia Dunn and ToI Staff
The NASA space shuttle Discovery lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in 2011. (photo credit: NASA)
January 21, 2014, 12:49 pm
Israel said to eye sending second astronaut spaceward
Officials hold talks with US, Russia, EU and China to launch Israeli to space station, 11 years after Ilan Ramon was killed in Columbia disaster
By Gavriel Fiske
Noa Assa, front, along with fellow students from the Mekif Alef High School in Beersheba place flowers on a gate in front of the Space Mirror Memorial during a remembrance ceremony on the 10th anniversary of the loss of space shuttle Columbia crew at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Friday, at Cape Canaveral, Fla. A few hundred people gathered there to remember the Columbia seven, which included the first Israeli spaceman Ilan Ramon. (photo credit: AP Photo/John Raoux)
February 2, 2013, 1:07 am
Israeli teens mark 10 years since loss of country’s first astronaut
Forty-four Israeli students, who go to the same school Ilan Ramon did, attend a NASA commemoration for the Columbia seven in Florida
Prof. Dr. Berndt Feuerbacher (photo credit: Sivan Faraj)
February 1, 2013, 10:55 am
Space, the final frontier for peace?
Space exploration can encourage peace between implacable enemies, says the head of the International Astronautical Federation
By David Shamah
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