On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia breaks apart. The first TV report said it was over Dallas (on the 33rd Degree Latitude) at about 39 miles up and flying about 13,000 miles per hour. One of the astronauts is Israeli, the first Israeli to fly into space. Most of the pieces fell near Palestine, Texas. The mission was in orbit 16 days. The patch portrays a mission inclination of 39 degrees, shows a sunrise, shows the constellation Columba (the dove), shows the Israeli flag next to the astronaut’s name, Ramon, one letter shy of “mason”, the microgravity symbol ug (the “u” forms an upside-down reversed “3” and with the dots linked of six stars of Columba, makes “33”.
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