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Moon Landing By Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Appears To End In Crash (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: A small spacecraft that has captured the imagination and excitement of people in Israel and around the world appears to have crashed on the moon (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source). "We had a failure in the spacecraft," said Opher Doron, the general manager of Israel Aerospace Industries' space division, which collaborated on building the spacecraft. "We unfortunately have not managed to land successfully."
If it had succeeded, the robotic lander, named Beresheet, which means "Genesis" or "in the beginning" in Hebrew, would have been the first on the moon built by a private organization, and it would have added Israel to just three nations -- the United States, the former Soviet Union, and China -- to have accomplished that feat. Beresheet reached the launchpad and was headed to space aboard a SpaceX rocket in February. It orbited the moon, by itself a major accomplishment. That has only been done by five nations -- the United States, the former Soviet Union, China, Japan and India -- and the European Space Agency. But the landing was the riskiest part of the mission. The start of the automated landing sequence went as planned. The spacecraft even took a picture of itself at an altitude of 13 miles with the moon in the background. Then, still high above the surface, the engine cut out. The appointed landing time -- 10:25 p.m. in Israel, or 3:25 p.m. Eastern time -- came and passed, and the SpaceIL team realized the mission was over. "Well we didn't make it, but we definitely tried," said Morris Kahn, an Israeli telecommunications entrepreneur and president of SpaceIL, the nonprofit that undertook the mission. "And I think the achievement of getting to where we got is really tremendous. I think we can be proud."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said, "If at first you don't succeed, you try again."
If it had succeeded, the robotic lander, named Beresheet, which means "Genesis" or "in the beginning" in Hebrew, would have been the first on the moon built by a private organization, and it would have added Israel to just three nations -- the United States, the former Soviet Union, and China -- to have accomplished that feat. Beresheet reached the launchpad and was headed to space aboard a SpaceX rocket in February. It orbited the moon, by itself a major accomplishment. That has only been done by five nations -- the United States, the former Soviet Union, China, Japan and India -- and the European Space Agency. But the landing was the riskiest part of the mission. The start of the automated landing sequence went as planned. The spacecraft even took a picture of itself at an altitude of 13 miles with the moon in the background. Then, still high above the surface, the engine cut out. The appointed landing time -- 10:25 p.m. in Israel, or 3:25 p.m. Eastern time -- came and passed, and the SpaceIL team realized the mission was over. "Well we didn't make it, but we definitely tried," said Morris Kahn, an Israeli telecommunications entrepreneur and president of SpaceIL, the nonprofit that undertook the mission. "And I think the achievement of getting to where we got is really tremendous. I think we can be proud."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said, "If at first you don't succeed, you try again."
Maybe the logic to power off the device to avoid doing work on Sabbat kicked in too early due to clock skew?
Ironically it ran out of oil.
Aryans = Iranians, so I don't think Israel "usually" employs them, no. You might be uneducated, but you're definitely no good at comedy.
would have been the first on the moon built by a private organization
Oh it's on the moon. :-(
Jokes aside I was really sad to see this fail, I tried watching the livestream a bit but was too late and didn't realize it had crashed.
I hope they do try again, and NASA gives them another reflector array to try and plant there...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Space is hard. That is why Google's lunar prize was unclaimed.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down..
"... but they should have employed Aryans for the actual calculations and stuff, as they usually do."
Aryans like you would have used a parachute for the landing, I'm sure.
Should've consulted with Mel Brooks
Moon Nazi's shot it down. This is all a publicity stunt for Iron Sky 2. No other explanation is needed or wanted.
As a Jewish person, that is hysterically funny.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Yes, a human pilot could detect that the landing area wasn't safe, burn almost all of their fuel traversing to a new location, and land the lunar module. Because a human was there to deal with the unanticipated problem.
... Aryans were a tribe in what became eastern Iran, but later became Afghanistan.
I know because the birth city of my dad was literally called Aryana way back in the days.
And my mome is as pure-blooded a German as you can get.
So no matter how you look at is, I might be the most Aryan person on the planet. ;)
And I don't look "like it" AT ALL!
(For some strange reason, nature thought it would be funny, to make me look like a Mexican-Brazilian who moved to Hawaii. I'm *both* too fair and too dark skinned, depending on the surroundings, but somehow magically never just normal.)
'See, some peckerwood's gotta get the thing up. And some peckerwood's gotta land the son of a bitch. And that "peckerwood" is called a "pilot."'
Proverbs 21:19
Right? RIGHT?
Correct. But this was just a robotic mission. And the US and the Soviet Union had numerous robotic landers on the moon before 1969. Soviet Luna program and US Surveyor program. One of the Apollo missions landed next to a Surveyor landing and brought back some pieces.
... Maybe cooperation in faking the US moon landings was part of the secret deal Kennedy and Krushev made during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Unless the Soviet Union was in on the conspiracy for the US to fake the landings
Maybe the logic to power off the device to avoid doing work on Sabbat kicked in too early due to clock skew?
.. thus foiling Bibi's cunning plan to set up a settler outpost on the Moon and annex it into Greater Israel?
The spacecraft even took a picture of itself at an altitude of 13 miles with the moon in the background. Then, still high above the surface, the engine cut out.
Death by selfie.
Robots did it before 1969. Look up the Surveyor probes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_program
I guess the Israeli engineers didn't know that.
Right
No.
can anyone hear it scream? Yes if it's a private venture capital bear. right before the IPOo
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
They're flying blind.
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Won't be long before they annex the whole thing
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said, "If at first you don't succeed, you try again."
Wasn't that his campaign slogan? :-)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions.
Hey, condolences to your brother....
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
They missed Gaza
He must be rubbing his hands with glee that a mission to the moon has failed.
It just landed IN the moon instead of ON it.
we also knocked over one of the flags left by the Apollo mission. Not our best day.
Yes.
It's not rocket science... oh, wait...
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
For a people without a land ...
A very "Rock n' Roll" ending.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Russia didn't and they have tried to grab much more land with many more people.
How about we keep dumb politics off here? m'k?
We, the human race, are just learning how to take the necessary 'baby steps' in our colonizing the Moon, Mars and beyond. This mission failed. Okay, we are learning what was not done right, it's new territory for us humans. The only way to get 'experience' is by trying and making mistakes. As long as we learn not to repeat our mistake do we get 'experience'. The only way to get 'wisdom' is from 'experience'. In other words, it's a process, and we are learning what does work and also what does not work. We are learning, that's what matters. Star Trek is one day going to be our reality, just not going to happen as soon as we'd want it to. What is important that we all keep talking and trying. There is hope for the future, and that makes me stay hopeful for the future of humanity.
So now, dear AC, please tell me, what would you like to attack/shame me with? :)
APK and his micro-penis of course. His great love of nígger dick. His deeply insecure need to be superior due to his unsatisfying pathetic life. I cannot shame you, because I will not judge you, but APK condemns himself by how he lives.
Are you related to Jussie Smollett?
Apollo 11 was essentially: Land ANYWHERE on the moon, grab some rocks, plant a flag and get home. As a result, the very flat (at least as seen by earlier probes) Mare Tranquillitatis was selected, and Neil Armstrong grabbed a few moon rocks and shoved them in his pocket nearly as soon as he got off the ladder (in case an emergency departure was needed) and the flag would tecnically be there even if a fabric one could not be planted since it was ethced into a plaque on a lander leg.
Apollo12 was essentially: Try a precision landing, spend a little longer on the surface planting a bunch of instruments and grabbing rocks and get home. An apparently smooth and empty spot was chosen next to the Surveyor 3 lander, then Pete and Al walked over to Surveyor and removed one of its cameras to bring it home (not only as proof, but for study of how equipment lasted in lunar surface conditions).
Isn't God on their side?
didn't try to blow it up, and did not try to crash a vehicle full of innocent civilians into it.
They did not even try making illogical claims about having a prior claim to the place superceding somebody else who had been there thousands of years longer.
Funny thing: Some Jew haters want to finish Hitler's dream of killing all Jews, but the "moderate" Jew haters just want to drive them out of the middle east usually accompanied by "from the river to the sea" sort of slogans (Meaning the Jordan river and the Mediterranian Sea). For this latter category of Jew haters, one would think Jews colonizing the Moon would be a wonderful thing. The truth however is that ther actually ARE no "moderate" Jew haters - if every Jew on Earth moved to the moon, these racist psycopaths would be mad every time they looked up at the moon and they'd start planning on ways to nuke it. Just try having a civilized conversation with anybody in the BDS movement - if you talk to them long enough, the fangs and the venom come out - hate hate hate hate.
I'm not even Jewish, and I've always been baffled by racism since I believe there is only one race: the human race.
Then I felt really bad since the implication is the French are cowards, when we all know they are the OG sex freaks instead :) Make love not war, spread STDs not dirty blankets and their home will become yours!
All hail the Gaul :)
Luna probes AC
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
It's a learning experience. Launch another one!
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It was a Genesis device.
The spacecraft even took a picture of itself at an altitude of 13 miles with the moon in the background.
Has anyone ever taught them you *NEVER* take your eyes off the moon while landing?!?
Jews hate moslems,
and moslems worship moon rock.
Conclusion: Moon dislikes Jews.
On the other hand ...
A Chinese girl went to the moon a long time ago,
Chinese have been worshiping her ever since,
plus, Chinese make and eat delicious moon cakes.
Conclusion: Moon likes Chinese.
ps. That Chinese girl on the moon is Chang Er.
The Promest land !
He's also wrong about everything.
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Or can they?
does a Beresheet on the moon?
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
You're clearly not APK. Your grammar is too good, there's no weird formatting, not even a P.S. Try harder next time.
It doesn't matter. The moon is probably their land as well given to them by god.. as it says in the bible. Or they forgot, might be in the next revision.
"If at first you don't succeed, you try again."
I mean, it's not like we can exterminate all the Palestinians at once, someone might notice. -"Bibi the Butcher" Netanyahu.
we could have seen a Beresheet in the woods!
No justice, no peace.
"SO we bide our time, waiting for a purer kick to bloom and the future is still bleak, uncertain and beautiful" -GSYBE
"If the first crater you make does not achieve your goal, you try again."
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.