[swarthyguy]

US space shuttle Columbia STS-107 Mission Specialist US (Indian born) Kalpana Chawla smiles upon her arrival on January 12 at Kennedy Space Center, Florida to begin the countdown for launch. The seven-person STS-107 research mission is scheduled to be launched on a 16-day science mission on January 16.

This might be making araby paranoid

[dennisw]

DOES this not look like a photo of the Israeli and Indian astronauts?

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Wed Jan 15,10:18 AM ET

FILE--STS-107 Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, of Tel Aviv, Israel, smiles as he takes part in a pre-launch press conference Dec. 20, 2002 at the Kennedy Space Center (news - web sites) in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Ramon, Israel's first astronaut, will be taking along kosher food and observing the Sabbath during the 16-day science mission. Columbia and her crew of seven are scheduled to liftoff Thursday morning Jan. 16, 2003. (AP Photo/File, Peter Cosgrove)