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Possible Israeli Moon Mission
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Posted on 01/29/2004 2:37:48 PM PST by ambrose
Possible Israeli Moon Mission
For thousands of years the Jewish people have looked to the moon to calculate the celebration of holidays and dictate the configuration of the Jewish lunar calendar - now it appears as though the Jewish state may send an astronaut to actually walk upon it.
Israel's Ambassador to the U.S., Daniel Ayalon, told "Globes" Wednesday that Israel wishes to renew its cooperation with America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to send a second Israeli astronaut into space. "There is a good chance that another Israeli astronaut will fly to outer space in a shuttle or other spacecraft," said Ayalon. "I wouldn't rule out the possibility that an Israeli astronaut will land on the moon, as part of U.S. efforts to establish a permanent base there."
Ayalon is scheduled to meet NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe during a ceremony marking the anniversary of Columbia space shuttle disaster, in which Israel's only astronaut, Colonel Ilan Ramon, and the six other crew members were killed.
Israel Defense and Armed Forces Attaché to the US Major-General Moshe Evry Sukenik will coordinate the preparations for Israel's next space mission, which Ayalon sees as a continuation of Colonel Ilan Ramon's unfinished mission.
Ramon had brought with him to space a picture drawn by a 14-year-old Jewish boy murdered in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. The drawing shows a view of Earth from the moon, as imagined by Petr Ginz, a multi-talented youth, who like Ilan Ramon was very interested in science. Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust museum has placed the original picture on display in memory of both Petr Ginz and Colonel Ilan Ramon.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: israel; mars; moon; nasa
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To: BenLurkin
Sorry Ben, I will not be drawn into a debate with an anti-Israel zealot. Every time a thread mentions the word "Israel" or "Jew" someone like you chimes in with the same tiresome pap with either 'How much money are we giving to these people" or "What about the Liberty, Huh?'.
As I said, it is predictable and zzzzzzzzzzz...
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posted on
01/29/2004 3:53:36 PM PST
by
Blennos
(hoste, opto ut seis felicior.)
To: Blennos
I see. You think I am an "anti-Israel zealot". You don't know a damn thing about me!
You can keep your head where you have it firmly stcuk for all I care. There are people on this forum who ARE inetersted in having a discussion.
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posted on
01/29/2004 3:58:34 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is Slavery)
To: danneskjold
MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOU!
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:41:08 PM PST
by
jaz.357
(We should be more open-minded toward people trying to kill us.)
To: BenLurkin
Israel is responsible for US aid to Egypt?
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posted on
01/29/2004 6:14:01 PM PST
by
rmlew
(Peaceniks and isolationists are objectively pro-Terrorist)
To: BCrago66; SJackson; Yehuda; Nachum; Paved Paradise; Thinkin' Gal; Bobby777; adam_az; Alouette; ...
Now the Zionist oppressors are going to occupy the Moon. Soon you'll hear about the indiginous peoples of the Moon, who nobody knew about before, displaced by the Jews. Good one!
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posted on
01/29/2004 6:47:34 PM PST
by
yonif
("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
To: BenLurkin
Whose going to pay for an Israeli space program? Israel.
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posted on
01/29/2004 6:48:19 PM PST
by
yonif
("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
To: BenLurkin
We are already propping up the nation of Israel to the tune of billions of dollars each year, PLUS the billions of tribute we pay to their enemies. Whose going to pay for an Israeli space program?
Please, urge President Bush to cut off Israel. That way we won't have sway over them, and they can proceed to kill Arafat and several other Islamo-fascists that are under our protection.
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posted on
01/29/2004 7:58:44 PM PST
by
adam_az
(Be vewy vewy qwiet, I'm hunting weftists.)
To: yonif
Yonif,
You, I respect.
If you say it can be done, then I'm willing to wait and see.
BL
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posted on
01/29/2004 8:30:23 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is Slavery)
To: adam_az
No FRiend, you miss my point.
We should support our allies.
It is the boondoggle of a moon mission that has me riled up.
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posted on
01/29/2004 8:31:41 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is Slavery)
To: BenLurkin
If you say it can be done, then I'm willing to wait and see. Sure. I do not know if this is possible. All I was saying is that Israel will fund (and is funding) its personal space program. Just last month Israel launched a satellite into space.
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posted on
01/29/2004 8:31:50 PM PST
by
yonif
("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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