DIARIES of the deceased are often poignant, but rarely more so than this. The charred and tattered pieces of the diary of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who died along with six others when the space shuttle Columbia fell apart on re-entry in February 2003, have been painstakingly pieced together by forensic scientists.
The pages were found in April 2003 in San Augustine county in Texas and handed over to Ramon’s wife. She gave them to Sharon Brown at the Questioned Documents Laboratory at the Israel police national headquarters in Jerusalem. Brown’s team used infrared light and digital image processing to…
