Israel's Beresheet Lunar Lander is About to Arrive on the Surface of the Moon

Israel's Beresheet Lunar Lander is About to Arrive on the Surface of the Moon

5 years ago
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http://www.newsweek.com/israel-beresheet-lunar-lander-surface-moon-1393438

Today, at around 5:00 p.m. EDT, an unmanned Israeli spacecraft will attempt to become the first lander funded by a private company to touch down on the moon, two months after launching from Cape Canaveral in Florida aboard a SpaceX rocket.

If the landing is successful, Bereseheet will also take the prize for being the smallest and cheapest spacecraft to achieve the feat. Furthermore, it will make Israel the fourth nation—and the smallest by quite a distance—to land a spacecraft on the moon alongside the United States, China and Russia (when it was part of the Soviet Union.)