Ilan Ramon
Ilan's request to postpone the shuttle's launch from the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, (a day of national mourning in memory of the destruction of the Temple), to the next day, in order that the festive atmosphere surrounding the launch not eclipse this sad day, the sanctification of the Sabbath in space, ensuring that there was Kosher food on the shuttle, the prayer " Shema Yisrael - Hear O Israel " as he flew over Jerusalem, all demonstrated to humanity Ilan Ramon's special place, as a
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Rehovot Weizmann Institute of Science Deputy Squadron in orbit national hero and a symbol of hope Phantom Squadron born June 20,1954, in Tel Aviv , Israel president, Moshe Katsav GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL former fighter pilot space technology President Clinton Johnson Space Center Department of Operational Requirement Weapon Development and Acquisition selected as a Payload Specialist emissary of humanity for scientific experiments working on many other experiments survived by his wife Rona, and their four children patient man, he was eager to go eager to go Israel's first astronaut payload specialist on Columbia STS-107 making his first spaceflight Gravity Sensitive Plant Operations Requirement Department University of Tel Aviv NASA Johnson Space Center angels deputy flight school president NASA tel aviv university air force research kennedy space center fighter pilot high school married bachelor of science degree bachelor of science idf IAF Israel Air Force European Space Agency Payload Specialist Crew Member Israeli Air Force biological post space commander Mission Specialist Israel Space Agency






