| Saturday, February 1, 2003 |
16:47 - Not In Vain
http://www.israelnewsagency.com/israelastronautilanramon.html
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If there's any consolation to be had, it's that the Shuttle's mission was in fact complete-- which means that the symbolism of Ilan Ramon's flight, including the journey into space of Petr Ginz' "Moon Landscape" drawing, remain intact. And though the experiments and research carried out during this sixteen-day mission was ground-breaking and every piece newsworthy in any less cynical a time, and every member of the crew a hero for accepting the risk inherent in the pioneering nature of the space program in the first place, Ramon's family and country can be particularly proud that he and the crew he flew with died bringing this one symbolic objective to fulfillment.
The art won't be returning to Earth, but it's met an end more poetic than any museum could give it.
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