(JNS) The National Library of Israel has acquired the space diary of the late Col. Ilan Ramon, it announced on May 29th, more than two decades after the Jewish state’s first astronaut died in the ...

Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon had a question before going into space: How would he mark Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest, from orbit? Sabbath begins Friday at sunset and ends Saturday after sunset. But ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — It was a cloudy Saturday morning on the Space Coast when 12-year-old Tal Ramon anxiously waited with his family for the return of his father Ilan on Space Shuttle Columbia in ...

(Recorded 11/13/2002 1:35PM to 3:53PM) Interview Ilan Ramon, Mission Specialist in Hebrew at Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Launch Entry Suit; Survival training needs refreshing due to long delays; Hebrew ...

the Ilan Ramon Scholarship program has become a platform that has allowed talented Israelis to accelerate global cooperation and partnerships with countries and space agencies around the world.” — ...

The head of the Israel Space Agency talks about his country's satellite ambitions and why the space economy now is like the early days of the internet. PBS’s “Mission of Hope” And The Legacy Of The ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The 20-year-old pilot son of Ilan Ramon, the Israeli astronaut who died in the Columbia space shuttle disaster of 2003, was killed Sunday when his fighter plane crashed during ...

Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon had a question before going into space: How would he mark Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest, from orbit? Sabbath begins Friday at sunset and ends Saturday after sunset. But ...

Click to open image viewer. During the flight of STS-107 in 2003 Israeli astronaut Ilon Ramon carried aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia a mezuzah identical to the one shown here. The practice of ...