Ramon took Ron Arad's last letter from captivity into space with him
The tenth secret item that the first Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, took with him into space was a letter sent by the missing navigator, Ron Arad, to his daughter Yuval from captivity in Lebanon - this was published this evening on News 10. According to the information, Ramon initially planned to read the letter during his stay in space in front of the camera broadcasting the The pictures of the astronauts to earth.
The publication shows that Ilan Ramon finally decided to read the letter at the celebratory ceremony that was planned to take place with the landing of the "Columbia" - an event that, as we know, did not take place in the end. The Arad family confirmed that they did deliver the letter to Ramon.
Yuval Arad, the daughter of the captive navigator, Ron Arad, told yesterday about the warm relationship that was forged between her and her mother Tami, and Ilan Ramon, after Ramon asked to take an item with him into space that would remind him of Ron Arad, "Mom was very moved by the gesture and in a phone call, after she had thought a little She told Ilan about the matter that she thought father's last letter would convey the message in the best way. She also told Ilan that father wanted to be an astronaut himself," Arad told GLC.
Ramon took with him to space the third and last letter received from Arad, on 27.9.87, almost a year after Arad was captured. In the letter, Arad wrote: "Don't give up. There will be other good days. I'm also trying not to give up." According to Yuval Arad: "Ilan wrote to us that after he received the letter he was terribly moved, and that his hands were shaking and he could not hold back the tears, and on another occasion when he asked his mother if it was okay to show the letter to the ferry crew with him, and we told him that if he wanted to share It's with them, so there's no problem."
