Diary of Shuttle Columbia Astronaut Ilan Ramon to be displayed at museum

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Diary of Shuttle Columbia Astronaut Ilan Ramon to be displayed at museum

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From the wire: FIVE YEARS ago, the remains of Ilan Ramon's crew notebook were discovered in a field in Texas. Sharon Brown was charged with the mission of deciphering the pages. On January 16, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia was launched into space carrying seven crew members, including Israel's star fighter pilot Ramon. On February 1, the Columbia burst apart 15 minutes before its scheduled landing. Heat-detecting weather radar equipment reported a bright red cloud of debris, scattered mostly over Texas. On February 12, Ramon was buried at Moshav Nahalal in the Jezreel Valley, close to the Ramat David air base, where he served. Far away, in East Texas, thousands of searchers continued to look for parts of the spacecraft. Some 82,500 pieces of smoldering wreckage had fallen to earth. The searchers walked in long lines, an arm's breadth apart, through farmland, forest, bush and swamp. On April 4, two months and three days after the disaster, a Native American tracker came upon a small pile of papers in an open field. Could these ordinary white loose-leaf papers with writing in pencil and black ink have traveled all the way from space? Some of the writing was visible, but it was in a language unfamiliar to the Indian tracker. The writing was Hebrew. Twenty pages of Ilan Ramon's crew notebook.

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