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Ilan Ramon's Space Diary Found
(Jerusalem Post) Judy Siegel-Itzkovich - Yediot Ahronot disclosed on Thursday that some months ago, sections of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon's personal diary - handwritten in Hebrew - during his last days on the ill-fated space shuttle were recovered in Texas by a Native American tracker. Rona Ramon, Ilan's widow, who was still in Houston, immediately identified it as her husband's writing. In his notes, Ramon expresses his excitement and feeling of good fortune to be aboard the spacecraft and to enjoy views of the Earth and the "thin layer of atmosphere." Since part of the text was destroyed and the pages were full of holes, Ramon's widow sent the diary to the criminal investigation unit of the Israel Police, which used advanced optical scanners to fill in the lacunae.