Israel's Beresheet, the first privately-funded mission to the moon, crashed in the last part of its journey, moments before it was supposed to land
The spacecraft aimed to perform a soft landing on the moon and would have made Israel the fourth country to do so -- and by far the smallest. Only the United States, the former Soviet Union and China have done it before."I am sorry to say that our spacecraft did not make it in one piece to the moon," said Opher Doron, the manager of Israel Aerospace Industries' Space Division. "We made it all the way to the moon. This is a great accomplishment.
Read MoreAt the time of the communications failure, the Beresheet was traveling at approximately 2,110 mph and was about 120 kilometers from its intended landing site."There is a suspicion that we did not land on the moon in the best fashion. We are trying to clarify the matter," a member of the SpaceIL team monitoring the landing sequence said. The spacecraft crashed in the last part of its journey, moments before it was supposed to land.
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