Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Sad Similarity

Another blog post inspired by an e-mail from a friend. This time, it's friend and blogshoot attendee brad_in_ma who sent me the following sad story:

Ramon's jet crashes near Hebron
Six years after his father Ilan Ramon died in the fatal Columbia space shuttle mission, Capt. Assaf Ramon was killed on Sunday when the Israeli Air Force F-16 fighter jet he was piloting crashed into the southern Hebron Hills.
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Ilan Ramon became the first Israeli in space aboard the fatal mission of Columbia which exploded during its reentry over southern Texas in 2003. Ramon was a colonel in the IAF and before joining NASA he held a number of staff positions at the branch's Tel Aviv headquarters.

Assaf Ramon announced his plans to follow in his father's footsteps shortly following the Columbia tragedy. In 2006, he enlisted in the IDF and successfully passed the IAF's grueling examinations and trials for the prestigious pilot's course. In June, he graduated the course at the top of his class and was chosen as the valedictorian.

Requiescat in pace, Assaf.

That is all.

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