Israel’s Beresheet Lunar Lander launched to Earth Orbit on February 21st and is expected to reach Lunar Orbit on April 4th and touchdown on the Moon on April 11th
Building of the Beresheet Lunar Lander by SpaceIL Scientist holding the time capsule loaded onto the Beresheet Lunar Lander. It contains a Bible, children’s drawings, Israeli songs, memories of a Holocaust survivor, and the blue-and-white Israeli flagCompleted Beresheet Lander – The first privately financed interplanetary missionAt the Ben Gurion airport in Israel, the Beresheet Lander will be shipped aboard a cargo plane to FloridaAt Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida where the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry the Israeli moon lander into spaceThe SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched Israel’s Beresheet robotic lunar lander from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in FloridaThis photo shows a long-exposure view of the launch, with the Falcon 9 appearing to streak into orbit (SpaceX)An artist’s concept of the Beresheet Lunar Lander on the moon (SpaceIL)
