13: Two Torahs on Columbia

13/05/2022 9 min
13: Two Torahs on Columbia

Listen "13: Two Torahs on Columbia"

Episode Synopsis

the Space Shuttle Columbia was the first to carry passengers. Across 22 years, it spent more than 300 days in Orbit. Among it's payloads were two different Torahs. One at the beginning of it's saga and the other, tragically at the end. This episode chronicles the Torahs brought aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia by Jeffrey Hoffman in 1996 and Ilan Ramon in 2003.

More episodes of the podcast Space Midrash