Beresheet (Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, Bərēšīṯ, "In the beginning"; Book of Genesis) was a demonstrator of a small robotic lunar lander and lunar probe operated...

Beresheet 2 is a proposed private space mission intended to land two spacecraft on the Moon. Upon reaching the Moon, the spacecraft would split into three:...

contest to land a spacecraft on the Moon. SpaceIL successfully launched its Beresheet lander on 22 February 2019 at 01:45 UTC; it entered lunar orbit on 4 April...

weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading Beresheet and Beresheet 2, both lunar landers by SpaceIL "Bereishit", a song by Blue Fringe...

Apollo 17 in 1972. Artemis II was originally designated Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2) and was initially intended to support the now-canceled Asteroid Redirect...

reached the Moon with uncrewed missions. Three private/commercial missions, Beresheet (hard landing), Hakuto-R (hard landing), and Odysseus (soft landing) have...

to send plants such as resurrection grass with the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet 2 to the Moon in 2025. Humans and other animals have orbited or circled...

on 23 August 2023. Spaceflight portal Solar System portal India portal Beresheet lander – Concurrent lunar lander mission, crash-landed on the Moon Chandrayaan-3...

from tank 2 following the stir, as he was focusing on tank 1, believing that its reading would be a good guide to what was present in tank 2, as did controllers...

November 8, 2020. Retrieved November 2, 2012. Earth magazine, March 2011, pp. 42–51 Bates, Lauderdale & Kernaghan 1979, pp. 2-3 & 4-32. Todaro, Chelsea (March...

surface. On 13 April 2019, Morris Kahn announced that a new mission, named Beresheet 2 would attempt a second time to land on the Moon. The planned date is...

(06:11 UTC) on January 15, 2025. It successfully landed on the Moon on March 2, 2025. The landers are named after the firefly species Phausis reticulata...

under NASA's Artemis program, which will utilize the larger Blue Moon Mark 2 lander. Blue Origin also plans to offer future Blue Moon Mark 1 missions to...

a Pragyan lunar rover, as replacements for the equivalents on Chandrayaan-2, which had crashed on landing in 2019. The spacecraft was launched on July...

milestone, regardless of mission type or intended outcome. For example, Beresheet was not intended to be an impactor, but achieved that milestone incidentally...

another soft-landing attempt using a follow-up robotic lander named Beresheet 2. India's Chandrayaan Programme conducted an unsuccessful robotic lunar...

Luna 2 (Russian: Луна 2), originally named the Second Soviet Cosmic Rocket and nicknamed Lunik 2 in contemporaneous media, was the sixth of the Soviet...

Management and Budget. 2 May 2025. p. 37. Retrieved 2 May 2025. "SLS Block 1 Crew, Block 1B Crew, Block 1B Cargo and Block 2 Cargo Evolution". NASA....

IM-2 was a lunar mission run by Intuitive Machines as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. It was launched on 27 February...

landing missions Active Past Failed Apollo 13 Beresheet Chandrayaan-2 Hakuto-R M1 M2 Luna 5 7 8 15 18 25 OMOTENASHI Peregrine Surveyor 2 4 Planned Proposed...

the Moon in which Apollo 17 landed, to a depth of 2 km (1.2 mi; 1.1 nmi). A 2.4 m (7.9 ft) long, 2 cm (0.79 in) diameter device, the Lunar Neutron Probe...

"SLS EM-1 and EM-2 launch dates realign; EM-3 gains notional mission outline". NASASpaceFlight.com. Archived from the original on October 2, 2017. Retrieved...

landing missions Active Past Failed Apollo 13 Beresheet Chandrayaan-2 Hakuto-R M1 M2 Luna 5 7 8 15 18 25 OMOTENASHI Peregrine Surveyor 2 4 Planned Proposed...

(2003). Keeping the Promise. MN: Kar-Ben publishing. ISBN 1-58013-118-2. Retrieved May 2, 2011. Brown, Irene (January 27, 2003). "Israeli astronaut busy up...

with the lunar surface exploration taking place between July 30 and August 2. Commander David Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin landed near Hadley...

Chang'e 5 6 Failed landings Beresheet Emirates Lunar Mission Hakuto-R M1 M2 IM-1 2 Luna 5 7 8 15 18 25 OMOTENASHI Surveyor 2 4 Vikram Peregrine Flybys 4M...

pp. 401–402. Mission Report, p. 12-3. Mission Report, pp. 1–2, 6–2. Mission Report, pp. 1–2, 7–3, 9-27–9-28. Chaikin 1995, p. 356. "Astronaut tells of...

January 15, 2025, and successfully soft-landed on the lunar surface on March 2, 2025, at 08:34 UTC. Firefly thus became the first commercial company to complete...

lunar surface on June 2, 1966, on the Oceanus Procellarum. This location was at 2°28′26″S 43°20′20″W / 2.474°S 43.339°W / -2.474; -43.339. This is...

capsule containing tardigrades was on board the Israeli lunar lander Beresheet which crashed on the Moon. Tardigrades are small arthropods able to tolerate...