Israel Will Send More Astronauts into Orbit: PM

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Israel Will Send More Astronauts into Orbit: PM

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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Sunday his country will sent more astronauts into orbit despite the loss of the US space shuttle Columbia and its seven crew members, including Israel's first astronaut Ilan Ramon.

"The day will come when we will launch more Israeli astronauts into space. I am sure that each and every one of them will carry inhis heart the memory of Ilan Ramon, a pioneer in Israeli space travel," Sharon said before the regular cabinet meeting.

"Man's journey into space will continue. Cooperation between theUnited States and Israel in this field will also continue," he said.

Sharon described Col. Ilan Ramon, who was killed alongside six American astronauts aboard the Columbia on Saturday, as "a man of values, a man who dearly loved his people and his country."

"The seven astronauts, who were killed yesterday in the space shuttle Columbia disaster, are part of the heavy price paid by the human race in its quest for knowledge, and in our search to exploreother worlds," Sharon said.

In the national mourning on Sunday, flags flew at half mast in the Jewish state while school children put up the pictures of Ramonon the walls of their classrooms.

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