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0
n Thursday, Jan. 31, Space
Shuttle Columbia: Mission
of Hope — a documentary
directed by Dan Cohen — will debut
at 9 p.m. on PBS stations to coincide
with the 10th anniversary of the death
of the first and only Israeli astronaut,
Ilan Ramon.
Columbia launched Jan. 16, 2003.
For 16 days, every aspect of the flight
was considered fully suc-
cessful, but as the crew
prepared for landing,
the shuttle exploded and
disintegrated. Among
the objects that survived
was the in-flight diary of
Ramon, virtually intact,
still legible.
Israel sent one of its
best on NASAs fatal
Columbia mission: Israel
Air Force Colonel Ramon
was 46, an engineer, a
pilot, married and the
father of four. As a combat pilot, he
was an integral part of the 1981 raid
on the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak.
Ramon, one of the mission's seven
casualties, is the only non-American to
receive the United States Congressional
Space Medal of Honor (awarded post-
humously). He was chosen to be a
NASA astronaut in 1997. By 1998, he
had begun a rigorous, five-year train-
ing program at Houston's Johnson
Space Center.
"From the moment he arrived in
Houston until he lifted off, Ramon
went through a transformational
change. He came to understand who
he was and what he represented:'
Cohen told JNS.org.
Ramon considered himself a rep-
resentative of all Jews and all Israelis.
Although a secular Jew, as the first
Israeli astronaut he recognized the
importance of maintaining Jewish
identity and unity.
"I am the son of a Holocaust sur-
vivor:' he once told Israel Radio. "I
carry on the suffering of the Holocaust
generation, proof that despite all
the horror they went through, we're
going forward:' Ramon asked Mission
Commander Rick Husband to provide
kosher meals on board Columbia
and received rabbinical guidance for
Shabbat observance in space.
Poems and photographs, letters and
legacy accompanied Ramon to space.
His wife and children sent personal
mementos and letters; then-Israeli
President Moshe Katsav provided a
Bible on microfiche; a pencil draw-
ing called Moon Landscape drawn
by 14-year-old Peter Ginz, killed at
Auschwitz, a kiddush cup and the flag
of the IAF also flew. These things, said
then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
at Ramon's memorial
service, "touched and
excited all Jews" and were
a source of pride and
united our hearts:'
The Israeli astronaut
also carried a miniature
Torah scroll saved from
the Holocaust. The scroll
had been given to a boy
who celebrated his bar
mitzvah trapped in the
horrors of the Bergen-
Belsen concentration
camp. The rabbi who
had smuggled the Torah into the camp
did not survive; the boy, the scroll, the
rabbi's admonition to tell the world
what happened in that place and the
boy's promise did.
Dr. Joachim "Yoya" Joseph, that bar
mitzvah boy, became a physicist and
was Israel's lead scientist supporting
Ramon on the ground. During their
work together, Ramon learned the
story of the scroll. When he returned
to Houston, he asked permission to
take the tiny Torah saved "from the
depths of Hell to the heights of space:'
For Cohen, Mission of Hope became
a personal mission. He sought to tell
the story not as tragic, but rather as
uplifting. "When Yoya asked [how to
help tell the story], I did not realize
that conversation would lead me down
a seven-year path:' he said. Meetings
with General Rani Falk at the Israeli
Embassy in Washington, with Ramon's
widow, Rona, and the other astronauts'
families followed.
Dr. Alex Grobman, historical con-
sultant for the documentary, has great
admiration for Cohen, who he said,
was meticulous in his research. For
him, this was a labor of love:'
"
"
❑
Space Shuttle Columbia: Mission of Hope debuts at 9 p.m. Thursday,
Jan. 31, on most PBS stations. It airs on Detroit Public Television at 11
p.m. Jan. 31 on Channel 56.1 and repeats at 10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, on
Channel 56.2.