Ilan Ramon
Colonel Ilan Ramon (Hebrew: אילן רמון, born Ilan Wolferman; June 20, 1954 - February 1, 2003) was an Israeli air force pilot and the only Israeli astronaut. He was a member of the STS-107 mission crew and he died during Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
His mother was a Holocaust survivor (at Auschwitz concentration camp) and his father fought for Israeli independence. Ramon was married to activist Rona Ramon.
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ilan Ramon.
- Official biography at NASA
- Photo of Ilan Ramon with Chabad Rabbi Zvi Konikov Archived 2008-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Ilan Ramon STS-107 Crew Memorial Archived 2008-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Ilan Ramon Memorial pages in the Israel Science and Technology Directory
- Spacefacts biography of Ilan Ramon
- Excerpts from Ilan Ramon's diary Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine
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