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February 23, 2023

How the Diary of an Israeli Astronaut Illuminates the Dual Nature of Mankind

Lonely man in space.

The first day of this month marked the tenth anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia disaster, which resulted in the deaths of all seven astronauts—including Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli to travel outside the earth’s atmosphere. After his death, two pages of his inflight diary were found in a Texas field, having somehow survived the shuttle’s disintegration. Reflecting on their contents, Meir Soloveichik writes:

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February 23, 2023

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