Nobody who was alive at the time will ever forget the white plumes of smoke across the blue Texas sky when the seven astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia died as the Columbia blew up sixteen ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. During the flight of STS-107 in 2003 ...