Israel asked the US to announce the date for launching the first Israeli astronaut into space, during Ehud Barak's visit to Washington.
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Israel asked the US to announce the date for launching the first Israeli astronaut into space, during Ehud Barak's visit to Washington.
The plan to launch an Israeli astronaut into space was born during the visit of Prime Minister Peres to Washington in December 95. Two senior officers from the Air Force, Col. Ilan Ramon and Lt. Col. Yitzhak Mayo, were sent to the training base of the space agency NASA in Houston - but the launch date of the Israeli astronaut lingered The reasoning was a load of candidates for placement on a space flight, but apparently, the administration did not want to pay the tribute to the previous prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
© Published in "Haaretz" on 11/07/1999
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