TEL AVIV – The moon may have got more than it bargained for when Israeli lunar lander Beresheet crash-landed onto its surface in April, because the spacecraft was also carrying thousands of tardigrades, microscopic “water bears” that can survive almost all environments – including space, a report published Monday by Wired magazine said.
Former astronaut and second man on the moon Buzz Aldrin on Thursday tweeted his condolences to the team behind the Beresheet spacecraft which crashed into the moon’s surface during its landing attempt on Thursday evening, saying the project was “inspiring.”
Long ago, Israelis decided not to let their fate or well-being be determined by their enemies — or their own failures.
YEHUD – Israel did not succeed in its bid to become the fourth country to land on the moon when its Beresheet spacecraft on Thursday made it just shy of the lunar surface but crashed right before touchdown. The country watched
Seven weeks after Israeli spacecraft Beresheet (Hebrew for Genesis) soared into the night sky at Cape Canaveral, Florida, commencing an epic 6.5 million km. journey, it is poised to make history on Thursday evening when it reaches the Moon.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft finally entered lunar orbit over the weekend, and the SpaceIL team celebrated by releasing jaw-dropping photographs captured by the spacecraft of the far side of the moon. The images were taken about 470 km
An Israeli team aiming to land a spacecraft on the moon in two weeks can now expect more than glory if it works. How about a cool $1 million?
A hitch in computer systems Monday evening caused an Israeli lunar spacecraft to miss a scheduled adjustment in its trajectory en route to the moon, engineers reported on Tuesday.