SOME PEOPLE WON’T LIKE THIS:

When Israel’s first astronaut, Colonel Ilan Ramon, lifts off for space aboard the US space shuttle Columbia on Thursday, he will carry a pencil sketch of earth, as seen from the moon, drawn by a 14-year-old boy who died in the Holocaust.

Screw ’em.

UPDATE: Here’s a link to the picture, and a picture of the boy who drew it.