BAD NEWS: Israel spacecraft CRASHES on the moon

by The Right Scoop

Israel’s first private attempt to land on the moon has ended in failure.

Despite having made history by orbiting the moon, they were unable to properly land due to engine failure.

Here’s more from Axios:

The Israeli Beresheet lunar lander didn’t stick its potentially historic moon landing on Thursday, suffering from a main engine failure in the final moments of its descent.

The lander would have been the first privately funded spacecraft to land on the moon’s surface and the first for Israel. In spite of the landing’s failure this history-making mission shows that space is slowly but surely becoming more and more accessible.

SpaceIL wasn’t backed by a government, but instead raised money for the mission through donations from wealthy philanthropists. Only the U.S., China and Russia have successfully soft-landed on the moon.

Newly re-elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on hand for the landing. “If at first you don’t succeed, you try again,” Netanyahu said after the mission’s failure.

The spacecraft was carrying the Israeli flag along with the slogan, “Small Country, Big Dreams.” It also had a NASA instrument aboard.

Failure breeds success and I’m sure they’ll try again before too long.

Here’s a couple of photos that came in before the craft, named Beresheet, crashed on the surface:



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