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===Diary=== Among the recovered 40% from the contents of the ''Columbia'' Space Shuttle that crashed outside [[Palestine, Texas]], were 37 pages of Ramon's diary, which NASA returned to his wife.<ref name=PC40.Wired>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |url=https://www.wired.com/2008/10/dairy-survived |title=Diary Survived Shuttle Accident, Goes On Display |quote=cardboard-covered, three-ring bound .. found wet and crumpled .. field .. Palestine, Texas. |author=Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides |date=October 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=LATimes.com [[Los Angeles Times]] |title=Pride Turns to Grief and Disbelief in Israel |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-feb-02-na-israel2-story.html |date=February 2, 2003}}</ref> His widow, Rona,<ref name=PC40.Wired/> shared an excerpt with the Israeli public in a display at [[Jerusalem]]'s [[Israel Museum]].<ref name="diary1">{{cite news|first=Shawna |last=Ohm|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-10-03-astronaut-diary_N.htm|title=Astronaut's diary goes on display in Jerusalem|publisher=Associated Press|date=October 3, 2008|access-date=October 23, 2011}}</ref> Rona Ramon brought it to Israel Museum [[forensic]] experts. Only two pages were displayed, one containing Ramon's notes, and the other is a copy of the [[Kiddush]] [[prayer]].<ref name="diary1"/> [[Curator]] [[Yigal Zalmona]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//081003/481/e19cacc4165d4e6b83e2b9dc67401ad0/#photoViewer=/081003/481/e19cacc4165d4e6b83e2b9dc67401ad0 |title=Photos of "miracle" diary '''here''' |publisher=yahoo.com |access-date=September 1, 2011}}</ref> said the [[diary]] was partially restored in one year, and needed four more, for police scientists to decipher 80% of the text. Zalmona stated: "The diary survived extreme heat in the explosion, extreme atmospheric cold, and then was attacked by microorganisms and insects. It's almost a miracle that it survived β it's incredible. There is 'no rational explanation' for how it was recovered when most of the shuttle was not."<ref name="diary1"/> Ramon wrote on the last day of the journal: {{quote|Today was the first day that I felt that I am truly living in space. I have become a man who lives and works in space.}} Inscribed in black ink and [[pencil]], it covered the first six days of the 16-day mission.<ref>{{cite news|author=Toni O'Loughlin|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/oct/04/israelandthepalestinians.spaceexploration |title=Diary that survived shuttle blast goes on show|publisher=Guardian |date= October 4, 2008|access-date=September 1, 2011 |location=London}}</ref>
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