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January 26, 2004
Opportunity
Opportunity has landed and is sending back imagery. The success of this new mission of exploration finds a moving echo in another recent discovery. The diary of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, written in space, has been recovered and reconstructed having survived its fall to earth (via lgf).
Disintegrating pages of a diary that an Israeli astronaut wrote during the doomed Columbia space shuttle mission were miraculously found in Texas, it was disclosed yesterday. Ilan Ramon, an Israeli air force combat pilot, recorded his thoughts about the mission, starting from takeoff, in the handwritten journal. But no one knew of its existence until a Native American scouring Texas fields for debris after the shuttle crash spotted the charred first page.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 26, 2004 08:53 AM
