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Thu Jan 16,11:12 AM ET

The space shuttle Columbia lifts off with a crew of seven, including Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli to travel on the space shuttle, from the Kennedy Space Center (news - web sites) in Cape Canaveral, Florida, January 16, 2003. The shuttle is beginning a 16-day scientific research mission. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

Sun Jan 26,10:41 AM ET

Israel and the Sinai peninsula are seen in this view from television cameras aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia January 26, 2003. Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon is aboard the shuttle working in the SPACEHAB module on 80-plus experiments representing the latest application of microgravity as a fundamental, versatile tool to gain insights in space and improve life on earth. REUTERS/NASA (news - web sites)

 

 

Tue Jan 21, 2:46 PM ET

Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites), right, and Israel's Technology Minister Limor Livnat, left, sit in the prime ministers office building in Jerusalem as they talk to Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, left on the video screen, currently in space on space shuttle Columbia, during a half-hour live conversation on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2003. Sharon invited the crew on the space shuttle to visit Jerusalem after their trip. On video screen right is Columbia commander Rick Husband. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Fri Jan 31, 9:17 PM ET

An Israeli man watches the news at a Jerusalem shopping center of the space shuttle Columbia apparently breaking apart on re-entry February 1, 2003. Israel's first astronaut, Colonel Ilan Ramon, who appears on the television screen, was aboard the Colombia with six other crew members. U.S. Space agency NASA (news - web sites) said it had lost contact with the shuttle on Saturday shortly before it was scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center (news - web sites). REUTERS/Paul Hanna

Sat Feb 1,11:44 AM ET

Space Shuttle Columbia payload specialist Ilan Ramon (Colonel, Israel Air Force), representing the Israel Space Agency (ISA) is shown in this file photo was taken in November 2001. NASA (news - web sites) said it scrambled rescue units to search in Texas for the shuttle and its seven astronauts, which included the first Israeli astronaut, Col. Ilan Ramon. NASA lost contact at around 9 a.m./1400 GMT, about 16 minutes before its scheduled landing at Kennedy Space Center (news - web sites). Columbia is NASA's oldest shuttle and first flew in 1981.

Fri Jan 31,10:14 PM ET

Orthodox Jews watch news about the space shuttle Columbia in a shop in Jerusalem, February 1, 2003 as NASA (news - web sites) lost contact with the space shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts, which included the first Israeli astronaut, Colonel Ilan Ramon. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti

Sun Feb 2, 8:56 AM ET

A unidentified Israeli student cries during a memorial ceremony for Ilan Ramon, the Israeli astronaut killed Saturday in the Columbia space shuttle, in Mekif Gimel high school where Ramon attended as a student in the southern city of Beer Sheva Sunday Feb. 2, 2003. Ramon and six other American astronauts were killed when the Columbia disintegrated over Texas on Saturday. (AP Photo/Eitan Hess-Ashkenazi)

Sun Feb 2, 8:36 AM ET

A group of Israeli students from Jerusalem's May Boyer high school react in front of a display February 2, 2003 in memoriam of Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, who perished aboard the space shuttle Columbia among six other astronauts. Israelis mourned on Sunday the death of their country's first astronaut with a weary sense of familiarity with dashed dreams. The space shuttle Columbia broke up in the skies 200,000 feet over Texas on February 1. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen

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Sat Feb 1, 1:44 PM ET

An image taken from Israel Channel 2 shows coverage of the Columbia space shuttle with the main headlines in Hebrew reading 'Crash of Columbia The Shuttle Columbia has blown up.' Space shuttle Columbia broke apart in flames over Texas on Saturday, killing all seven astronauts just 16 minutes before they were to glide to their landing strip in Florida. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Channel 2)