Move Over Pigs – Zionists In Space

Here’s an interesting article about the Israeli space program: what it’s achieved and how small the budget has been compared to giants like NASA and the ESA (European Space Agency).

Israel’s Science Minister on Space Technology–for Peaceful and Militaristic Aims | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network.

But Hershkowitz notes that his nation takes the overall enterprise of scientific research quite seriously. Israel leads the world in terms of percentage of GDP spent on research and development, and he notes that by some criteria its space program is fairly advanced:

In fact, nowadays Israel belongs to the very exclusive club of about 10 countries in the world that have all capabilities in space. When we say all, I mean producing satellites, both the bus and the payload, launching them and communicating with them. There are only about 10 such states in the world, and Israel belongs to that exclusive club.

Read it all.

4 thoughts on “Move Over Pigs – Zionists In Space”

  1. An Orthodox Jewish scientist is selected for a mission to the space shuttle

    The mission goes well and the astronauts are being interviewed after landing.

    The reporter asks the Captain how it felt being in space.

    He says “I have to say it was magnificent. Below us was the earth bathed in sunlight. Then a few hours later we would look out and see the lights below as night fell. Then in a few more hours dawn would break. It was spectacular.”

    She asks the scientist about his experience.

    “It was terrible. I didnt sleep a wink”

    “Well why” she asks.

    “On with the T’fillin…off with the T’filllin…on with the T’fillin…”

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