Rona Ramon, widow of Israeli space shuttle victim, dies

JERUSALEM (AP) — Rona Ramon, whose husband was killed in the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster and who later lost a son in a military plane crash, has died.
Ramon, who was 54, died Monday of pancreatic cancer, according to Israeli media reports.
Her husband, Ilan Ramon, was Israel’s first and only astronaut. Six years after the Columbia crash, their son, Asaf, who had followed in his father’s footsteps to become an Israeli air force fighter pilot, was killed in a training ac