First private Israel lunar mission to be launched this week

Associated Press ^ | February 18, 2019 | Ilan Ben Zion

[Olog-hai]

A nonprofit Israeli consortium said Monday that it hopes to make history this week by launching the first private aircraft to land on the moon.

SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries told a news conference that the landing craft — dubbed “Beresheet,” or Genesis — will take off from Florida, propelled by a SpaceX Falcon rocket on its weekslong voyage to the moon.

The launch is scheduled late Thursday in the United States, early Friday in Israel. It had been originally slated for last December. […]

The small craft, roughly the size of a washing machine, is equipped with instruments to measure the moon’s magnetic field, as well as a copy of the Bible microscopically etched on a small metal disc. …

[Olog-hai]

“Beresheet” (also transliterated Bereshith) literally means “In the beginning,” the first word(s) of the Bible.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[rightwingcrazy]

“aircraft to land on the moon”

Hm.

[Da Coyote]

Brings memories of “Jews in Space” which I believe was part of Mel Brook’s “History of the World Part 1”. So now, it’s “Jews on the Moon”.

What I’d love to see is them place a backlit Star of David on the portion facing earth so that at night when the moon was new, it would appear hovering over Mecca with no means for the muzzies to blot it out. Love it, love it, love it.

[Olog-hai]

AP has such brilliant reporters.

[gibsonguy]

Meanwhile the surrounding arab countries have perfected the wheel.

[GraceG]

Muslims are outraged by the Jews landing on their precious moon... ( When are they NOT outraged )

[null and void]

Is it modeled on a fiat lux?

[Pontiac]

You could say it is an aircraft as long as it is in the Earth’s atmosphere.

But it isn’t when it lands on the moon.

A science reporter should know better.

Also a lack of good editing/proofreading.

[WKUHilltopper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUnSGz8vW0U

[null and void]

Meanwhile the surrounding arab countries have almost perfected the wheel.

There.

Fixed...

[null and void]

6+

One internet to the first person to get the reference...

[Pontiac]

The only reason Arabs have the wheel is that they have the Petro dollars to buy them from abroad

[MichaelCorleone]

congratulations to our good friends of Israel!

But for the record, only one country was first; only one country landed men on the moon (12 I believe) and returned them safely to Earth.

[montag813]

[Olog-hai]

Yes, in principio.

[null and void]

And did it before the end of the decade.

Now the meme is that we can’t ever do it again, as we’ve lost the recipe...

[MichaelCorleone]

I don’t know if this is part of what you’re referring to, but supposedly the blueprints to the F1 engine that powered the booster part of the Saturn V were destroyed.

Supposedly they are gone forever.

I’d sooner buy the Brooklyn Bridge than believe that one.

[SunkenCiv]

I expect a HUGE uptick in the "Flat Earth" and "Moon landings faked" hoaxes and stupidity, I hope *not* on FR. Thanks Olog-hai.