TEL AVIV (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 12th April, 2019) Israel's Beresheet spacecraft crashed during an attempt to land on the Moon on Thursday, the mission command announced in live broadcast.
"Unfortunately, we failed to land the craft," one of the commanders of the mission said.
According to the live broadcast, the mission control lost contact with Beresheet shortly before the expected touchdown.
A successful touchdown would have made Beresheet not only the first private spacecraft to carry out a Moon landing, but� would also have made Israel only the fourth nation on Earth to reach the surface of the Earth's natural satellite after the Soviet Union, the United States and China.
