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The Most Famous

ASTRONAUTS from Israel

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This page contains a list of the greatest Israeli Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 524 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Israel. This makes Israel the birth place of the 22nd most number of Astronauts behind Austria and Australia.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Israeli Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Israeli Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Ilan Ramon (1954 - 2003)

With an HPI of 57.76, Ilan Ramon is the most famous Israeli Astronaut.  His biography has been translated into 47 different languages on wikipedia.

Ilan Ramon (Hebrew: אילן רמון; pronounced [(ʔ)iˈlan ʁaˈmon], born Ilan Wolfferman (אילן וולפרמן); June 20, 1954 – February 1, 2003) was an Israeli fighter pilot and later the first Israeli astronaut. He served as a Space Shuttle payload specialist on STS-107, the fatal mission of Columbia, in which he and the six other crew members were killed when the spacecraft disintegrated during re-entry. At 48, Ramon was the oldest member of the crew. He is the only foreign recipient of the United States Congressional Space Medal of Honor, which was awarded posthumously.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronauts born between 1954 and 1954. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased astronauts include Ilan Ramon.

Deceased Astronauts

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