Israel plans to showcase Col. Ilan Ramon’s experiments in space at a conference at the lowest point on Earth. Science Minister Eliezer Zandberg said Tuesday that the results of the late Israeli astronaut’s experiments aboard the doomed Columbia space shuttle would be presented at a conference in May at a venue near the Dead Sea.
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