Israeli astronaut splashes down safely from 17-day mission
Eytan Stibbe, part of the first private mission to the International Space Station, carried everything from matzah to science experiments aboard.
Eytan Stibbe, part of the first private mission to the International Space Station, carried everything from matzah to science experiments aboard.
Eytan Stibbe makes history for Israel, and for the world as he takes part in the first-ever fully private space mission.
A structureless artwork that becomes 3D in the absence of gravity was launched to International Space Station with Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe.
Eytan Stibbe is scheduled to take off for the International Space Station on April 8, taking along 44 scientific experiments and symbolic objects.
Eytan Stibbe is set to go into space with a small coin from the second-century times of the Bar Kochba Revolt, gifted to him to bring him luck.
Eytan Stibbe, who was a close friend of Israel’s first astronaut Ilan Ramon, is to spend 200 hours on the International Space Station.