Rona Ramon, Widow of Israel’s First Astronaut Ilan Ramon, Dies at 54, Haaretz “Rona Ramon, the widow of Israel’s first and only astronaut, died of pancreatic cancer Monday at age 54. Ramon’s husband, Ilan Ramon, was a crew member on America’s 2003 Columbia space shuttle mission when the spacecraft blew up, killing all on board. Rona Ramon later lost her son Asaf, an Israel Air Force fighter pilot, in a […]