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Credit: SpaceIL
It was not the ending SpaceIL had planned for the spacecraft Beresheet, the first privately funded mission to the Moon. On April 11, after a nearly flawless, seven-week journey to lunar orbit, Beresheet—Hebrew for “in the beginning”—began a final, 21-min. engine burn to reduce its speed, drop...
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