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Israeli Beresheet Spacecraft to Attempt Historic Moon Landing Today! Watch Live
Space.com ^ | 04/11/2019 | Meghan Bartels

Posted on 04/11/2019 6:49:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin

To date, three countries have landed on the moon. Today, that number may become four.

Israel launched its first lunar mission, a spacecraft called Beresheet, on Feb. 21, riding piggyback on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It spent six weeks orbiting Earth in leisurely, ever-widening circles before slipping into orbit around the moon on April 4. It remained there for a week, preparing for the defining moment of the mission: attempting to touch down softly on the moon's surface.

That moment comes today (April 11), around 3 or 4 p.m. EDT (1700 or 1800 GMT) — the exact time has yet to be announced. The Beresheet mission partners — nonprofit organization SpaceIL and government-owned aerospace company Israel Aerospace Industries — will livestream events surrounding the landing from mission control. You can watch the broadcast on Space.com or on SpaceIL's Facebook page.

SpaceIL's webcast will begin at 2:45 p.m. EDT (1845 GMT). It will be 9:45 p.m. local time at SpaceIL's control center in Yehud, Israel.

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: beresheet; landing; moon

1 posted on 04/11/2019 6:49:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Israel puts spacecraft on the moon, the Muzzies put suicide vests on children. But remember all culture are equal.


2 posted on 04/11/2019 6:52:17 AM PDT by redangus
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To: redangus
Cue Elton John:

https://youtu.be/R6wxp3Z_zks

3 posted on 04/11/2019 7:19:51 AM PDT by Sa-teef
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To: BenLurkin; Army Air Corps; MeganC

Thank You for posting BenLurkin!


5 posted on 04/11/2019 7:38:14 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: BenLurkin

In other news today the Islamic Space Program is attempting its first experimental paper airplane flight. If successful manned flights are planned for after next Al-Hijra.


6 posted on 04/11/2019 8:06:22 AM PDT by Reily
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To: BenLurkin

They’ll have a robot step out and CORRECTLY say:

“One step for A man, one giant leap for mankind.”

He screwed it up, THAT is why he paused —he caught himself.

He blew it.


7 posted on 04/11/2019 9:10:00 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: BenLurkin
Mel Brooks saw it all coming...


8 posted on 04/11/2019 11:24:31 AM PDT by drpix
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My mistake: “Jews in Space” was in Brook’s “History of the World.”


9 posted on 04/11/2019 11:29:17 AM PDT by drpix
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To: redangus

Israel puts spacecraft on the moon, the Muzzies put suicide vests on children. But remember all culture are equal.


Ha! The muzzies invented the cell phone bomb, so there!


10 posted on 04/11/2019 11:59:41 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: KC_Lion; All

https://youtu.be/21X5lGlDOfg


11 posted on 04/11/2019 12:23:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: KC_Lion; All

“If at first you don’t succeed, you try again.”


12 posted on 04/11/2019 12:28:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Is it a wild Beresheet?


13 posted on 04/11/2019 12:30:28 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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Is it a wild Beresheet?

Does a Beresheet in the woods?

14 posted on 04/11/2019 12:36:35 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: BenLurkin
“If at first you don’t succeed, you try again.”

“We are on the moon, but not in the way we wanted. But we will check again.”

The spacecraft appears to have crashed.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/beresheet-landing-fails/

Interesting turn of events.

15 posted on 04/11/2019 12:46:14 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word.)
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To: KC_Lion

One of my kids works for NASA and sent out a youtube link of the event. The kids were all commenting and wondering what was really going on since the feed was in Hebrew.

My son was providing some better details until the lander crashed.


16 posted on 04/11/2019 1:43:27 PM PDT by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: BenLurkin

Heard a radio report - it didn’t make it.


17 posted on 04/11/2019 2:51:42 PM PDT by Libloather (Global warming is AWESOME!)
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To: PIF

Good point.


18 posted on 04/11/2019 7:00:05 PM PDT by redangus
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To: BenLurkin; Army Air Corps

And we will Try and Try again!


19 posted on 04/12/2019 8:50:17 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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