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The computer class named after Col. Ilan Ramon and Prof. Yosef Yosef was inaugurated at Tel Aviv University

Rona Ramon, guests from NASA and the heads of the university participated in the ceremony that took place in the classroom, which serves the students of the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University

From right to left: Dr. Diane Evans, a guest from NASA, Rona Ramon, Stella Yosef, Prof. Colin Price and Dr. Christer Vogelsang, a guest from NASA. Photography: Michal Rosh- Ben Ami

Mrs. Rona Ramon, guests from NASA and the heads of the university participated today, at Tel Aviv University, Tuesday, January 26, in a ceremony in honor of the inauguration of the new computer class for undergraduate students, dedicated to the memory of Col. Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, and Prof. Yehoyachin Yosef, and in the evening The review held afterwards to mark 7 years of the Columbia shuttle mission.

A NASA delegation arrived in Israel on the occasion of participating in the Ilan Ramon International Space Conference to be held on January 27-28 at the Fisher Institute in Herzliya, together with the Israel Space Agency of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

On the evening of the study organized by the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences in the Raymond and Burley Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Prof. Colin Price, head of the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, spoke. Dr. Dane Evans, scientist from NASA, JPL, lectured on "Looking at the Earth: the vital role of satellites in understanding and knowing the environment", Dr. Christer Vogelsang, Astronaut ASA/NASA lectured on the experiences of an astronaut in space , and Prof. Morris Podolak, the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences gave a lecture on how was the solar system formed?

Prof. Yosef was one of the main researchers in the MEIDEX scientific experiment, aboard the space shuttle Columbia, and worked closely with Ilan Ramon for many years before the flight of Columbia in January 2003. Prof. Yosef gave Ramon the Torah book he received for his Bar Mitzvah celebrated in Bergen-Belsen - The small Torah book whose story was shown to the whole world during the press conference in space.
After the death of Prof. Yosef, in October 2008, it was decided in light of the close relationship between Ramon and Prof. Yosef and the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences to establish a new computer class for undergraduate students in their memory.

"Our future in space depends on our youth and students, due to their creative ideas. We hope that this class will be an inspiration to the next generation of scientists engaged in the study of the Earth and space," said Prof. Colin Price, head of the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, and who also worked with Ramon during the MEIDEX project.