BREAKING: Israeli spacecraft suffers an engine failure during its descent and crashes onto the lunar surface while attempting to make history by becoming the 1st privately funded craft to land on the moon. - NBCNewsMACH
A "selfie" taken by the camera on the Israel Beresheet spacecraft before it crashed.April 11, 2019, 4:24 PM GMTAn Israeli spacecraft attempting to make history by becoming the first privately funded craft to land on the moon suffered an engine failure during its descent and crashed onto the lunar surface.was to have touched down on the moon between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. ET.
"We didn't make it," SpaceIL chairman Morris Kahn said during a livestream of the landing attempt."The achievement to getting to where we got is really tremendous." If successful, Israel would have become the fourth nation — after the United States, Russia and China — to land a spacecraft on the moon. The four-legged craft, about the size of a washing machine, would also have become theBeresheet — the name means “genesis” in Hebrew — performed a final pre-landing maneuver Wednesday, firing its engines for 32 seconds to bring it within 10 miles of the lunar surface.
During the landing attempt, the spacecraft beamed back a"selfie" from an altitude of about 14 miles above the lunar surface. Against a backdrop of the moon's pockmarked surface, the photo showed one of the space probe's legs and a view of a plaque emblazoned with Israel's flag and the words"Small country, big dreams."
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