"The First Israeli in Space" is-a film that follows in the footsteps of Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut, from the beginning of his training until his untimely death when the Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas. For more than four years a film crew from Israel's Public Television Station, Channel one, documented the long road which,led Ilan; a veteran F-16 Pilot in Israel's Air Force, to NASA's Astronaut Training Facility in Houston and to the Launch Pad in Florida. Ilan was one of the seven person crew on the ill fated flight STS-107, a 16 day scientific mission which ended in tragedy sixteen minutes before it was scheduled to land.
Length: approx. 1 hr.
Languages: English Subtitles
Media: DVD