"A priceless artifact was lost when the Columbia broke up: a pencil drawing that Israeli mission specialist Ilan Ramon had brought along. Titled "Moon Landing" (and shown alongside), it depicted the Earth seen from the moon, as imagined by a young visionary named Peter Ginz some six decades ago. The Nazis murdered Peter Ginz at Auschwitz in 1944. (Ramon's mother was also an Auschwitz inmate, but she survived.)
Peter was 14, so if he had lived, he would be about 10 years younger than John Glenn. Who knows--if he had managed to survive, Peter Ginz just might have grown up to become an astronaut."
Mike/wulfie
