NASA Administrator Lori Garver Visits Israel for Global Space Conference

NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver returned Feb. 1 from a four-day tour to Israel where she delegated NASA at an international space conference, met with students and rewarded tribute to the memory of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon.

Garver’s visit was tinted by her contribution in the Sixth Annual Ilan Ramon International Space Conference, a two-day forum for Israel’s space community to confer technologies, programs and strategies with representatives from around the world.

The convention included meetings with European Space Agency Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain, Israeli Minister of Science and Technology Daniel Hershkowitz, Menachem Greenblum, director general of Israel’s Ministry of Science and Technology, and Israel Space Agency Director General Zvi Kaplan.