The diary that Israeli astronaut Col. Ilan Ramon kept on the doomed Space Shuttle Columbia mission surfaced. A Native American tracker discovered fragments of paper from Ramon’s diary in Texas months ago, and NASA officials sent the items to Ramon’s widow, the Jerusalem Post reported.
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