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In addition to the academic institutions, many Israeli start-up companies also want to send experiments to Operation Rakei. The space agency will finance part of them and Stiva will take care of financing the rest
The experiments at the station will be conducted by the second Israeli in space, Eitan Stiva, who is expected to take off for the mission next year
Monitoring brain dynamics and cognitive function under conditions of being in space. This is the experiment that will be conducted by the head of the cognitive and brain sciences department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Dr. Oren Shariki, in collaboration with the Israeli company IG-Sense during Eitan Stiva's stay in space
The Israeli Space Agency and the Ramon Foundation, which selected the experiments to be performed by the second Israeli space traveler - space tourist Ilan Stiva, hope that they will lead to technological and scientific breakthroughs * Some of the experiments will be performed in collaboration with school students
The name Rakie was chosen from the three names that reached the final line (Aloma and Kadama) and won more than 60% of the votes
The Ramon Foundation and the Israel Space Agency at the Ministry of Science and Technology are calling on scientists, researchers and entrepreneurs to send their proposals for experiments, which will be carried out on the International Space Station (subject to NASA's approval) as part of the journey of Eitan Stiva, the second Israeli to fly into space.
Eitan Stiva, a former fighter pilot, is expected to take off at the end of 2021 in the Crew Dragon spacecraft as a space tourist for about five days.
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