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| Diary of an Astronaut |
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Sharon Brown, Laser Sin-David |
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Challenges |
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Innovation Exchange No. 12 |
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01/01/2006 |
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NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, flight STS-107, took off from the Kennedy Space Center on January 16, 2003 for a 16-day mission. While orbiting the earth, the seven-man crew, including Israel's first astronaut Colonel Ilan Ramon, conducted a wide variety of experiments and intermittently stayed in contact with earth through email and carefully timed public announcement broadcasts.
On re-entering the Earth's atmosphere on February 1st, the Space Shuttle broke up, most likely as a result of damage inflicted to the spacecraft soon after takeoff; all seven crewmembers tragically perished.
Two months after the disaster, during extensive searches to recover any material that may have survived the crash, a pile of papers containing Hebrew writing was found in a field in San Augustine County, Texas.
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