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  • The moon from 550 kilometers away, as taken by Beresheet, April 7th, 2019

    Beresheet orbits closer to moon, enters into an elliptical orbit

    Intensive maneuvers and preparations for the landing will be conducted this week as Beresheet readies to land on the moon on April 11.

  • EARTH, from Beresheet’s vantage point

    Beresheet spacecraft releases striking photo as it heads toward moon

    The Israeli-built spacecraft has completed another maneuver in preparation for entering the moon's gravitational pull.

  • President of SpaceIL Morris Kahn with Canadian-Israeli businessman Sylvan Adams at IAI

    Beresheet funder and initiator tapped to light torch on Independence Day

    While Israel didn't become the fourth country to land on the moon, it did make it into an exclusive club of seven that achieved a moon orbit.

  • Capturing the moon – Beresheet gears up to escape Earth’s gravity

    The nation holds its breath as Beresheet is meant to escape the Earth’s gravitational pull on Thursday, will the April 11 celebrations be held or will it melt near the sun?

    By HAGAY HACOHEN

  • Sunrise photo from Beresheet spacecraft

    Wanna see the sunrise from space? Israeli craft Beresheet has the video

    The spacecraft is in its largest elliptical orbit around the earth and is scheduled to intersect the moon’s orbit and be captured in it on April 4 at 251,655 miles from earth.

    By MARCY OSTER/JTA

  • Shooting for the moon: Israel’s ‘next generation’ looks to the heavens

    At Jerusalem competition, young scientists discuss the country’s historic lunar mission as a source of inspiration.

    By MAYA MARGIT/THE MEDIA LINE

  • Beresheet completes another successful maneuver en route to Moon

    SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries engineers completed the maneuver at 3:11 p.m. local time.

    By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

  • The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet takes a selfie 37,600 km from Earth.

    Selfie from 20,000 miles away: Israeli Beresheet snaps first space shot

    The selfie shows the Southern Hemisphere, and Australia can clearly be seen in the background.

    By YAFIT OVADIA

  • Cartoon Israel lunar spacecraft

    The moon and secondhand cellphone light

    I had the misfortune at a recent concert to sit next to a guy constantly checking WhatsApp messages. He might just as well have brought a lamp into the room and kept it on throughout the show.

    By HERB KEINON

  • SpaceIL

    Israel's first lunar spacecraft experiences technical difficulties

    Space IL and Israel Aerospace Industries, the organizations that spearheaded the projects, are currently examining the data to understand what went wrong.

    By YVETTE J. DEANE

  • The control room at Israel Aerospace Industries headquarters

    Israel to the moon!

    The Beresheet spacecraft blasts off toward a brighter future.

    By YAFIT OVADIA

  • THE SURFACE of the moon as seen from Beresheet

    Beresheet was the Start-Up Nation at its best

    Yes, the spacecraft reached the Moon, but it crash-landed, ending any contact with its handlers and any ability to have it serve experimental purposes from the Moon’s surface.

    By DOUGLAS ALTABEF

  • Beresheet takes a selfie minutes before touching down on the moon

    Looking at the Moon from Jerusalem on April 11

    Was the SpaceIL Beresheet Moon mission a success? Yes. On a scale of 1-10, we would give it an eight.

    By JOEL LEYDEN

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