{"id":19904,"date":"2019-04-12T12:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T04:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=19904"},"modified":"2019-04-12T12:31:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T04:31:31","slug":"israeli-spacecraft-crashes-during-moon-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=19904","title":{"rendered":"Israeli spacecraft crashes during moon landing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/rocket-crash-1024x615.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19907\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/rocket-crash-1024x615.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/rocket-crash-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/rocket-crash-768x461.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/rocket-crash-600x360.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/rocket-crash.jpg 1839w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>photo for illustration purposes only. Photo courtesy of Free images\/Piixalbay<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>JERUSALEM, April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; Israel&#8217;s attempt at a moon landing failed at the last minute on Thursday (Apr 11) when the spacecraft suffered an engine failure as it prepared to land and apparently crashed onto the lunar surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t make it, but we definitely tried,&#8221; project originator and major backer Morris Kahn said in a live videocast from mission control near Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think that the achievement of getting to where we got is really tremendous, I think we can be proud,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the broadcast control staff could be heard saying that engines meant to slow the craft&#8217;s descent and allow a soft landing had failed and contact with it had been lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If at first you don&#8217;t succeed, you try again,&#8221; said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the control room, where he had been watching along with US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only Russia, the United States and China have made the 384,000-kilometre journey and landed safely on the Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israeli NGO SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the project&#8217;s two main partners, described it as the &#8220;world&#8217;s first spacecraft built in a non-governmental mission&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan, a philanthropist and chairman of SpaceIL, put up US$40 million of the project&#8217;s US$100 million budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other partners who joined later are from &#8220;the private sector, government and academia,&#8221; according to the IAI website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just before the landing attempt Netanyahu said that he was thinking about initiating a national space project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am seriously considering investing in a space programme,&#8221; he said in the webcast. &#8220;It has national implications for Israel and implications for humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM, April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; Israel&#8217;s attempt at a moon landing failed at the last minute on Thursday (Apr 11) when the spacecraft suffered an engine failure as it prepared to land and apparently crashed onto the lunar surface. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t make it, but we definitely tried,&#8221; project originator and major backer Morris Kahn said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":19907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19904"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}