A Moon Shot into History
February 26, 2019
In a quintessential meshing of global space trends described in Issues, a spacecraft designed and built by a company in Israel recently blasted off atop a rocket owned by a US company on a long and winding trip to the moon. If successful, the innovative private mission will accomplish something that only governmental space agencies of three superpower nations have ever done—making a controlled landing on the lunar surface—and will do so at a fraction of the usual costs.