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Corner of 12 Mile in the Orchard 12 Plaza • Farmington Hills Carry out available - call about delivery Let Us Host Your Upcoming Private Parties, Meetings or Events! 248-994-7388 scramblermaries.com 40 January 24 • 2013 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.