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Subject Israel Set To Launch Historic Moon Landing Mission

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Original Message Israeli Moon Lander To Land On Moon - It is called "Beresheet" in Hebrew which is the word for the 1st Book Of The Bible - "Genesis" - "In The Beginning"

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Israel is set to embark on a historic mission to land a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon.

The unmanned Beresheet spacecraft will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket later this week. It is expected to reach the Moon on April 4.

Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries told reporters on Monday that the launch is scheduled for 8:45 p.m. ET on Thursday.

The spacecraft will take Israel into a select group of nations. Only three countries – the U.S., the Soviet Union and China – have made successful ‘soft landings’ on the lunar surface. An Indian impact probe was intentionally crashed into the Moon in 2008. The following year, Japan’s Kaguya spacecraft was directed to crash into the lunar surface.

Beresheet also will be the first private mission to reach Earth’s natural satellite.

The spacecraft was born out of the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition to land an unmanned probe on the moon. The $30 million competition was scrapped with no winner last year after the organizers said none of the five finalists would make the March 31, 2018 deadline for a Moon launch, Space.com reported.

Nonetheless, the Israeli team pressed on with the development of its 397-pound spacecraft and this week’s launch from SpaceX’s Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) is generating plenty of interest.

After its two-month journey, the probe will land within Mare Serenitatis in the Moon’s northern hemisphere. SpaceIL notes that the site has magnetic anomalies, enabling Beresheet’s magnetometer device to take measurements as part of a scientific experiment. Data from the magnetometer, which was developed with Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, will be shared with NASA.

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