Ilan Ramon, Israeli colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 2003)

Ilan Ramon

Israeli fighter pilot and astronaut (1954–2003)

Ilan Ramon was an Israeli fighter pilot and later the first Israeli astronaut. He served as a Space Shuttle payload specialist on STS-107, the fatal mission of Columbia, in which he and the six other crew members were killed when the spacecraft disintegrated during re-entry. At…