There were only two ways the first-ever Moon landing for Israel was going to go. The country’s Beresheet lander was definitely going to make it to the lunar surface, and it would either perform a successful soft landing or, well, crash. Unfortunately, it was the latter.
As everyone saw during the livestream of the landing attempt, everything was going very, very well for the privately-funded Moon landing mission. The spacecraft even snapped a quick selfie with the lunar surface in the background at an altitude of around 22 kilometers. Then, silence.
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