ASTRONAUT

Ilan Ramon

1954 - 2003

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ilan Ramon has received more than 1,431,329 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Ilan Ramon is the 34th most popular astronaut (down from 28th in 2019), the 149th most popular biography from Israel (down from 135th in 2019) and the most popular Israeli Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Ilan Ramon ranks 34 out of 556. Before him are Roger B. Chaffee, Edgar Mitchell, Michael P. Anderson, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Ken Mattingly, and Charles Duke. After him are Valery Bykovsky, Fred Haise, Bruce McCandless II, Mirosław Hermaszewski, Toktar Aubakirov, and Vladislav Volkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Ilan Ramon ranks 67. Before him are Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, Phil Rudd, Riccardo Patrese, François Fillon, Johnny Logan, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. After him are Shuji Nakamura, Andrei Karlov, Rashad al-Alimi, Chris Evert, Katsuhiro Otomo, and Roberto Dinamite. Among people deceased in 2003, Ilan Ramon ranks 67. Before him are Uday Hussein, Bob Hope, László Papp, June Carter Cash, Elem Klimov, and John Schlesinger. After him are Vasil Bykaŭ, Miloš Milutinović, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Michael Jeter, Walt Whitman Rostow, and Eizo Yuguchi.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Ilan Ramon ranks 149 out of 466. Before him are Khalil al-Wazir (1935), Sextus Julius Africanus (160), Uzi Narkiss (1925), Valerius Gratus (-50), Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni (1907), and Naftali Bennett (1972). After him are Rehavam Ze'evi (1926), Shoghi Effendi (1897), Rafi Eitan (1926), Ron Huldai (1944), Moshe Ya'alon (1950), and Angelus of Jerusalem (1185).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Israel

Among astronauts born in Israel, Ilan Ramon ranks 1. 

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