The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet ended its unsuccessful mission about three hours ago when, in the final moments of flight and barely five hundred feet from the lunar surface, it lost communication with earth and crashed on the moon. What would have been an enormous achievement for Israel and for private space exploration ended in disappointment, but nonetheless demonstrated that the era of private space travel is tantalizingly close.
Good effort, SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries.
John Racette says:
However much I view the space travel and exploration industries as impractical applications of human technology, I share in the disappointed that Israel, and its ally, America, feel over Beresheet.
Back to the drawing board, gentlemen.
Jean W Gordon says:
In addition to all my other personal oddities, I’ve recently been toying with becoming a believer in a flat earth, which, of course, obviates the validity of any space craft leaving earth and landing on the moon. Governments lie repeatedly to their people, why not also about the makeup of our “solar system”.