A ceremony in Israel marked the first anniversary of the Columbia space shuttle tragedy. Sunday’s commemoration for Israeli astronaut Col. Ilan Ramon and the six others who died when the shuttle disintegrated during re-entry on Feb. 1, 2003 was held in the Galilee.
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