Posted on 03/05/2019 12:00:09 PM PST by simpson96
The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet, which was launched off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, two weeks ago on its way to a planned Moon landing next month, took its first selfie in space. The selfie - which was taken some 37,600 km (20,000 miles) away from Earth - shows the Southern Hemisphere, and Australia can clearly be seen in the background.
The image was taken as the spacecraft slowly orbits the Earth for the next month or so, before it will be pulled by the gravitational force of the Moon and the landing process will begin. Beresheet is scheduled to land on the Moon on April 11.
In the image, a plaque that was installed at the front of the spacecraft is seen, featuring the Israeli flag and the message "Am Yisrael Chai" (lit. Long live the Nation of Israel). An additional inscription also reads "Small country big dreams," a reference to the founder of modern Zionism Theodore Herzl who was noted for his famous quote, "If you will it, it is no dream."
"The selfie of the spacecraft is proof of the technological power of Israel," said the Israeli Minister of Science and Technology Ofir Akunis. "Despite the small size of the spacecraft Beresheet, it brings us great joy. The spacecraft is proof of the technological strength and power of Israel, and its success passes on an educational message as well to the children of Israel: You need to dream big," he said.
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Ping.
Congresswoman Ohmar (jew-hating democrat) does not like this.
Does a Beresheet shoot in space?.................
LOL
What a spunky country for the size and population that it is :)
Hell it rival countries with 100 million people in terms of advancement and success.
And YES, to answer another post on this thread, Iiman Omar HATES that anything positive happens with Israel.
And their success is not based on slave labor or stolen assets, like quite a number of muslim countries.
Just hard work and smarts.
She REALLY hates that.
Hamas also has a lunar rocket program, but for some reason all their rockets keep hitting Israel.
How did I miss the fact that another country will be landing on the moon in April??? This is the first I’m hearing of it. I assume he will be getting out and walking on the surface?
That’s some significant damn altitude right there.
If only there was a way for them to get guidance system technology from Loral.
With the assistance for hire of the krinton krime kartel of course.
It’s a robot. Pretty decent sized one, and launched on a US (SpaceX) rocket.
Haha! That’s how I missed it. Because there isn’t actually a human involved. It’s amazing that America accomplished in 1969 what the rest of the world still can’t (or won’t).
Landing a man on the moon is an incredibly expensive thing to do. We had that capability in 1970. We gave it up. We can't do it today. We have no operational rockets heavy enough for the job, and no operational factories to build them. We wouldn't have to start from nothing, as we did with Project Mercury, but we would still have to build many things that don't currently exist.
They may not be landing the craft on the moon at all unless they get the computer(s) fixed that decided to reboot last week just as an orbital correction burn was about to happen.
So it will be landing during baseball season, in the big inning...
(The Almighty is pleased with this. Allah, on the other hand...)
About the same distance Apollo 13 was away from Earth when Houston was informed they had had a problem.
Beresheet (properly corrected from ‘i’ to ‘ee’)
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