More than 80 percent of the results of Israeli experiments conducted aboard the Columbia space shuttle were relayed to Earth prior to the shuttle disaster. A report published this week by the Israel Space Agency and scientists from Tel Aviv University and Open University said a large portion of the data was relayed to Earth in real time, the Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported.
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