Ilan Ramon memorial ceremony in Israel
JER2003021002 - LOD, Israel, February 10 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sits beside Rona Ramon, the widow of Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon and her children, during the state memorial service at an Air Force base at Lod, February 10, 2003. Col. Ilan Ramon was killed February 1, when the Columbia Space Shuttle broke up over Texas during its re-entry to Earth's atmosphere. mk/dh/Debbie Hill UPI
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An Israeli fighter pilot was to be buried Monday next to his father, an astronaut who died aboard the space shuttle Columbia, officials said.
Pages of a diary kept by an Israeli astronaut killed in the Columbia space shuttle disaster are going on display at a museum in Jerusalem, Israeli media report.
The U.S. space agency will televise the Astronauts Memorial Foundation's remembrance service honoring space shuttle Columbia's STS-107 crew.
Schoolchildren from all over Israel, including the son of astronaut Ilan Ramon, pitted original robot designs against one another in a national contest.
A fourth space walk to fix a thermal blanket near shuttle Discovery's left window will not be needed, the crew was told by Mission Control in Houston Thursday.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, filed legislation Tuesday that would award the congressional gold medal to the crew of the space shuttle Columbia.
Seven hills on Mars will be named for the members of the last crew of the space shuttle Columbia, NASA announced Tuesday.
Less than 10 minutes before their deaths, the astronauts aboard shuttle Columbia chatted breezily as they checked their spacesuits, put on their gloves and marveled at the flashes of light outside their windows as the spaceship encountered Earth's atmosph
A piece of shuttle Columbia's left wing, which showed signs of trouble minutes before the spaceship tore apart over Texas last week, is among the 12,000 pieces of wreckage recovered so far, officials said Monday.
Recovery teams slogged through muddy forests in east Texas Thursday looking for more debris from space shuttle Columbia.
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