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...lift-off. No one cared, except the insurance companies that covered the payload, because there was no crew aboard. NASA's insistence on sending a crew on every shuttle flight means risking precious human life for mindless tasks that automated devices can easily carry out. Did Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon really have to be there to push a couple of buttons on the Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment, the payload package he died to accompany to space...
Shuttle missions are always a mix of symbol and substance; the Challenger had the schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe; Columbia had Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut and a decorated F16 pilot, whose mother and grandmother were Auschwitz survivors. He hoped that his adventure would be a happy respite from a hard winter for his embattled country: Israel could travel with him, to feel safe in a borderless universe. Even a Palestinian Authority spokesman had wished for his safe return. "We flew over Jerusalem," he said in an interview from space. "Israel looked so small and beautiful." He had asked Prime Minister...
Pollard's arrest soon turned into an ugly diplomatic snarl. Despite its promises to cooperate with American authorities in investigating the episode, Israel recalled from the U.S. two diplomats apparently involved in the case: Yosef Yagur, the science attaché at the New York City consulate, and Ilan Ravid, deputy science attaché in the Washington embassy. The U.S. demanded that the two officials be returned for questioning...
...challenge will be the same for next year’s Crimson squad. Without Blumberg and captain Asher Hochberg, Broadbent, Suchde, and sophomore Ilan Oren will be forced to carry more of the load. If Harvard stays healthy and matures, then the 2006 season may finally end with total satisfaction for the Crimson...
Thursday, April 14. Ilan Stavans discusses Dictionary Days. 6:30 p.m. Harvard Book Store. Admission free...