Minister of Science, Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz: "The flying of the flag into space symbolizes beyond all else the need to educate the future generation of the State of Israel in science and technology, especially in the field of space"
the astronaut Gareth Reisman He presented the Minister of Science, Daniel Hershkowitz, with the flag of the Ramon Foundation government scholarship, which is administered by the Ministry of Science for Israeli students to study at the International Space University, which he took with him to the space station. The flag will be kept by the people of the INSA association - the association for small satellites in Israel that promotes education on technology and space issues in Israel, which is the representative of the ISU in Israel.
Gareth Reisman, a Jewish astronaut and a close friend of the Ramon family, took with him on his last flight into space a flag with the logo of the ISU Israel - Ilan Ramon government scholarship fund, which grants scholarships to Israeli students for studies at the International Space University. The flag of Israel and the emblem of the university are combined.
Reisman Flew into space on the shuttle Atlantis' last mission in May 2010 for an 11-day mission to the International Space Station. Raisman took two flags with him, one remains permanently on the International Space Station and one is returned to Israel.
Minister of Science, Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz: "Flying the flag into space symbolizes above all the need to educate the future generation of the State of Israel in science and technology, especially in the field of space. I am happy to host students and young scientists here. This is Israel's real resource - the human resource."
The flag awarding ceremony was joined by Ms. Rona Ramon and the active cosmonaut, Mikhail Kurnianko, who trained with Reisman in Russia and the two even met on the space station.
Gareth Reisman: Exactly a year ago, Mikhail and I met at the space station. I did not believe that we would meet again in Jerusalem. In the last mission I had the honor of taking a flag of a wonderful space program into space with Rona Ramon. This flag flew into space on May 14, 2010, orbiting the Earth 186 times and traveling 4,879,978 miles. The banner stayed in space for 11 days, 18 hours, 28 minutes and two seconds."
The event was attended by the three winners of the Ilan Ramon Trailblazers competition, Hillel Mashal, Zvika Oron and Amri Yaffe They will travel this June to Singularity University and the four scholars to ISU for the coming year.
He also stays in Israel Alexei Leonov, the pioneers of the Soviet space program and the first person to perform a spacewalk in history on March 18, 1965. The three astronauts are staying in Israel for an international festival of the "Limad" project, in which they will discuss Science, technology and space topics. It will be held in Beer-Sheva on May 26-27, in which about 1,000 Russian-speaking young people from all over the country and the world and participants of a travel program from Russian-speaking countries, staying in Israel, will participate. The arrival of the cosmonauts was made possible with the assistance of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Israel Space Agency and the Russian Cultural Center in Israel.
International Space University (UIS) is a unique academic institution located in Strasbourg, France, offering a one-year master's degree program (M.Sc), and a 9-week summer program that takes place every year in a different place in the world. The academic program is multidisciplinary and combines a variety of subjects such as: space law and policy, space engineering, cosmology, space medicine, life sciences, space project management and more. Studying at the university is an opportunity for Israeli students to make personal connections with the future generation of the international space industry and absorb a cosmopolitan atmosphere. In the last three years, eight Israeli students graduated from ISU and most of them were integrated into leading positions in the field of space in Israel.
scholarship fund UIS Israel - Ilan Ramon Founded in memory of The late Ilan Ramon, after the Columbia accident by Mr. Michael Potter from California, who served on the Board of Trustees of the ISU, with the aim of supporting students from Israel to attend the academic programs of the ISU to expand and strengthen Israel's activity on the subject of space, to expose it to the world and to expose it to innovations and developments.
In accordance with Government Decision No. 3534 of 01.06.2008, in which the government ministries were assigned to participate in the financing of the scholarship fund in the name of the Ilan Ramon family, which is managed by the Ministry of Science and Technology. The government ministries transfer to the fund 1 million NIS in equal parts, for each budget year for 10 years. The scholarship fund allocates scholarships to encourage students to cultivate quality groups while educating for excellence, values and contribution to the community. The Ministry of Science provides support to students going to study at the Space University, thus expanding the activity and providing state sponsorship for this activity.
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Certainly the Ramon Foundation scholarship is a very important thing to commemorate the late Ilan Ramon, I hope his son will also have a scholarship named after him, the Ramon family has contributed a lot to the State of Israel and world science.