This is an amazing story
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:12 pm
by Category 5
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081003/ap_ ... ut_s_diaryThe location where it was found is the ultimate irony.
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:00 am
by Cyclenall
I don't understand what the irony is in this one. What is special about the field in Texas? What is remarkable is how it survived.
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:12 pm
by TYNI
Cyclenall wrote:I don't understand what the irony is in this one. What is special about the field in Texas? What is remarkable is how it survived.
Just outside Palestine, Texas ...
re: the Israeli/Palestinian conflicts of the past, if I'm not mistaken.
Re: This is an amazing story
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:25 am
by bvigal
"The diary belonged to Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut and one of seven crew members killed when Columbia disintegrated upon re-entering the atmosphere on Feb. 1, 2003....
A little over two months after the shuttle explosion, NASA searchers found 37 pages from Ramon's diary, wet and crumpled, in a field just outside the U.S. town of Palestine, Texas. The diary survived extreme heat in the explosion, extreme atmospheric cold, and then "was attacked by microorganisms and insects" in the field where it fell, said museum curator Yigal Zalmona.
"It's almost a miracle that it survived — it's incredible," Zalmona said. There is "no rational explanation" for how it was recovered when most of the shuttle was not, he said."
This is truly amazing. Thanks for posting it for us!