The names of the seven astronauts who died in the Columbia space shuttle explosion were carved into the national Space Mirror Memorial. On Tuesday, the family of Israeli Col. Ilan Ramon joined the relatives of the six others who died in the February 2003 explosion as the names were unveiled.
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