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Space Shuttle Columbia and Her Crew
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Payload Specialist 1: Ilan
Ramon
Ilan Ramon, 48, a colonel
in the Israeli Air Force, was a fighter pilot who was
the only payload specialist on STS-107. Ramon received a
bachelor of science in electronics and computer
engineering from the University of Tel Aviv, Israel, in
1987. Ramon, as a member of the Red Team, was the prime
crewmember for the Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment
(MEIDEX), a multispectral camera that measured small
dust particles (dust aerosols) in the atmosphere over
the Mediterranean and the Saharan coast of the Atlantic.
He worked with the following experiments: European Space
Agency Advanced Respiratory Monitoring System (ARMS);
Astroculture (AST-1 and 2); Biological Research in
Canister - Development of Gravity Sensitive Plant Cells
in Microgravity (BRIC); Combustion Module (CM-2), which
included the Laminar Soot Processes (LSP), Water Mist
Fire Suppression (MIST) and Structures of Flame Balls at
Low Lewis-number (SOFBALL) experiments; the Microbial
Physiology Flight Experiments Team (MPFE) experiments,
which included the Effects of Microgravity on Microbial
Physiology and Spaceflight Effects on Fungal Growth,
Metabolism and Sensitivity to Anti-fungal Drugs; the
Physiology and Biochemistry Team (PhAB4) suite of
experiments, which included Calcium Kinetics, Latent
Virus Shedding, Protein Turnover and Renal Stone Risk;
and Space Technology and Research Students Bootes (STARS
Bootes).
Ramon was selected as a Payload
Specialist by the Israeli Air Force in 1997 and approved
by NASA in 1998. He reported for training at the NASA
Johnson Space Center in Houston in July 1998 and was
making his first
spaceflight.
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