Mezuzah on board space shuttle Atlantis
Mike Massimino, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis is carrying a mezuzah with him to honor the life of the first Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon OBM.
Mission Specialist Mike Massimino, who has been working to repair the Hubble telescope, took a replica of the Barbed Wire Mezuzah by San Francisco artist Aimee Golant with him into space to honor Ilan Ramon, who carried the original mezuzah in the space shuttle Columbia. Ramon and the entire crew were killed in the Columbia disaster in 2003.