 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Ilan Ramon akanga ari mudenga rokutanga raIsraeri. Ramon akanga ari nyanzvi yepa space shuttle payload pabhodhi reSTS-107 basa rakauraya reSpace Shuttle Columbia, umo iye nevamwe vatanhatu vevashandi vakaurayiwa mutsaona yekudzokapamusoro peSouthern United States. Ramon akanga asarudzwa kuva nyanzvi yezvokutakura zvinhu muna 1997 uye akadzidziswa paJohnson Space Center, muHouston, Texas, kubva muna 1998 kusvikira muna 2003. Pakati pedzimwe ongororo, Ramon aive nebasa reprojekti yeMEIDEX umo aifanirwa kutora mifananidzo yemhepo yemhepo guruva munzvimbo yeMediterranean achishandisa kamera ye multi-spectral yakagadzirirwa kupa ruzivo rwezvesayenzi pamusoro pemhepo yemhepo uye pesvedzero yeshanduko yemamiriro ekunze epasi rose pane mamiriro ekunze, uye data yeTotal Ozone Mapping Spectrometer TOMS uye Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer MODIS zviridzwa. Vanzveri veTel Aviv University TAU vakanga vane mutoro wechimiro chesayenzi chomuedzo wacho. Chikwata cheTAU chakashandawo nekambani yokuUnited States, Orbital Sciences Corporation, kuvaka nokuedza michina yokufambisa chaiyo yebasa racho. 