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Preparing for the journey and the moment of the decision: behind the preparations for the launch of the Israeli astronaut
The agreement with Axiom, which will fly Eitan Steve - the second Israeli to be in space for his mission, the conditions he set for the launch, and what exactly the businessman and former pilot will do at NASA International Station. In a conversation with Keren Ramon CEO Ran Livne The founding event
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Mikey Levy
Tuesday, 17 November 2020, 12:03
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In the video: Announcement of the second Israeli astronaut in space Former fighter pilot Eitan Steve (Photo: GPO)
"There were two conditions: Ramon Foundation will manage everything, and the children of Verona and the Pedigree approve the trip," says Ron Birch, CEO of Foundation Ramon, after the announcement yesterday (Monday), the former fighter pilot Ethan sativa Israeli astronaut, the other will be in space.
Birch Tells about the special relationship between Steve and the Ramon family, and describes how he declared to them: "I am your employee, and I work under your agenda and vision." He detailed the close relationship between the former pilot and businessman, and the family, and what was the process that led to the founding event.
The preparations for the launch, which included preliminary training, the flight itself to NASA's International Space Station, and the stay - Steve will finance himself, as a contribution to the Ramon Foundation.
The cost of launching the spacecraft, whose mission will be performed by Axium on a private space flight, is estimated at about $ 55 million.
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Will fund the trip.
Steve in the presence of the Ramon Foundation and President Rivlin in the announcement, yesterday (Photo: Mark Neiman, GPO)
"When I joined the Ramon Foundation in July 2015, one of the questions I asked Rona (Ilan Ramon's wife) was: What would you think if you were a second Israeli astronaut? And her answer was immediately: 'I wish, what a dream. This is an opportunity for Israel to celebrate science, technology and education. "A chapter in the story. Rona kept opening more chapters in Ramon's story, another educational program, another school, another space experiment and she really wished for this moment. It would come up with every science minister who took office, and with every space agency director," he described. Birch.
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How long have you been working on the launch?
"It has matured in recent months. Axiom, with which we launch, is a relatively young company. The company's CEO was here in the country when it was established and we talked to him, and the CEO of the space agency also met with him. I remember an astronaut who worked at SpaceX at the time : 'Guys, this is going to be the real thing. In the future, private astronauts will go out, after which they will send models (extras) to the International Space Station, and also do science, education and tourism. In fact, we've been in touch with them since two or three years ago. Again, and we met them with quite a few people in the industry, "explained the CEO of Keren Ramon.
He said," The second thing that is very unique, is that unlike the other astronauts, Eitan does not do it alone.
When you ask what was the moment when Eitan was convinced, it was the moment when we sat with him at the Ramon Foundation and another former astronaut who was a friend of Rona and Ilan, and he realized that he was going to make a huge contribution to science and technology in Israel
. " Going to get on a spaceship to do selfies.
So he said: 'If I do that, it's a contribution to the Ramon Foundation.
You will manage everything: technology, science, donation, and I am your employee.
I work under your agenda, the vision and everything.
The second thing was that the children of Rona and Ilan Ramon would confirm it. "
Dreamed of another Israeli astronaut.
Rona Ramon (Photo: Tami Bar Shai)
"Eitan Steva could do the same thing as others did: pick up the phone to Axiom, or meet with them, pay the money, go into space and come back. Instead, he put in a third party (the Keren Ramon Association) with a mechanism, with close to a hundred workers, with "An educational, scientific-technological team that we have established in no time and very extensive experience in launching cargo to the International Space Station and more or less connections with the entire international space industry," Livna added.
What kind of scientific tasks will Steve perform?
"We are working together with Axiom to cost as much scientific cargo as possible. A large proportion of the other participants will not cost as much scientific cargo due to weight limitations. But the model is completely different from a traditional NASA launch: we have an external budget.
Eitan's contribution includes the launch, preparations, stay at the space station, and another part of the management of the scientific and technological payload.
"In fact, the state does not fund anything, and if it helps, then it will participate in the educational activities and certainly in our work with NASA and all the factors and technological things," Livneh said.
"He does not do it alone."
Eitan Steve (Photo: Mark Neiman, GPO)
"Think what an opportunity this is," explains the CEO of the Ramon Foundation, "We are giving free astronaut hours.
If, for example, a company that makes the best solar panels in the world, wants to test the product in space, then it can not turn to a satellite company, because costing an experiment that will test the radiation in space costs a lot of money.
Here we will actually take it out, test it, send results, make some improvements at no cost.
This is a tremendous opportunity.
Nutrition supplement companies want to prove that they are doing something in space?
They need astronaut time, they will not start or finish this thing without spending millions of dollars.
"They're going to get us through a fast track into the global space industry and that's something that's amazing."
Does the voice call for experiments limited only to Israeli companies?
"We do not know if these will be Israeli scientists and companies that will carry out the experiments, but we have the chief engineer behind it, the chairman of the scientific committee, Inbal Kreiss.
She has zero ego, is a work animal, and she manages the innovation in the aerospace and systems division in the aerospace industry.
She was also a friend of Rona and she formed around her committee members who could win the Nobel.
Truly exceptional.
They will take out every reader together with the state on this thing, "Livneh explained.
" If we can create more jobs in Israel because air purification companies or solar panels will prove their work in space, it will be happiness.
This is amazing.
Just today I said: 'Yes guys, I think you do not understand, I was in conversations with a professor who told me: 18 years we have been waiting for someone Israeli who can bring things into space.
I was convinced that as soon as it was itemized, the scroll was closed.
It's going to be cynical and cold. "
"We were waiting for an Israeli who could bring things into space."
Axiom Space Station (Photo: Axiom Space)
Livneh concluded, "The chairman of the Kreis Scientific Committee emphasizes technologies that change the reality that Israel can lead.
We are looking for the things we can say that Israel is a world leader in.
There are a number of things that Israel can detail, lasers and more.
And I think we can do extraordinary things. "
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