Ilan Ramon: The First Israeli Astronaut - עשר דקות על אילן רמון
Resource
Type:
Peula
in:
English
Age:
10-18
Group Size:
10-50
Estimated Time:
10
minutes
Goal: Raizing Ilan Ramon story
Background:
Ilan Ramon was the first Israeli astronaut on the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) that was launched on
Going to space...
1. Ask the students: pick 2 things you would take with you to space. Let each student explain about one of the things he chose.
2. Ask again: what do you think an astronaut would take with him to space? Would Israeli/jewish astronaut choose different objects?
3. Tell the students about Ilan Ramon’s choice:
Ramon carried several personal souvenirs with him into space. His wife gave him four poems and his father gave him photographs of the family. His 15-year-old son, Assaf, and Ramon's brother, Gadi, both gave him letters to be unsealed and read only after he was in orbit.
Being the first Israeli astronaut -- I feel I am representing all Jews and all Israelis," Ramon said. Referring to his mother and grandmother, who both survived imprisonment in Auschwitz, he added, "I'm the son of a Holocaust survivor -- I carry on the suffering of the Holocaust generation, and I'm kind of proof that despite all the horror they went through, we're going forward."
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