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“The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile. Everybody, all of us down there, not only in Israel, have to keep it clean and good.”

Quote by Ilan Ramon

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Ilan Ramon was an Israeli Air Force pilot and astronaut, the first and only Israeli astronaut. He tragically lost his life during the STS-107 mission in 1999. more

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