Two months after the Columbia space shuttle disaster in February 2003, pages from the diary of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon were found scattered in a Texas field, having miraculously survived the explosion. The pages underwent a complex process of restoration and reconstruction at the Israel Museum\u2019s Paper Conservation Laboratory and the Israel Police Division of Identification and Forensic Science, which revealed the text to be mostly personal reflections of great emotional impact. Published as a set accompanying the 2019 exhibition are a facsimile of Ramon\u2019s diary and a catalogue encompassing the story of the challenging process of restoring and deciphering the severely damaged pages; an essay by Adolfo Roitman, Head of the Shrine of the Book, revealing surprising similarities between Ramon\u2019s diary and the Enoch Scroll; and the extraordinary story of a miniature Torah scroll that survived the Holocaust but was destroyed in the Columbia tragedy \u2013 but which turned out to have a \u201ctwin\u201d in Berlin that was displayed in the exhibition. Although, sadly, Rona Ramon passed away before the opening of the exhibition, the astronaut\u2019s widow was its moving spirit and a true partner in the development of its moving narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3120,"template":"","meta":{"_joinchat":[]},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[375,376,370],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-4704","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-art-culture-en","product_cat-books-en","product_cat-museum-inspired-pieces-en","first","instock","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n