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Ah good point, it will still make Israel the 3rd country to land on the moon though, even if it's not a human.
by benjlang 14y ago
Ah good point, it will still make Israel the 3rd country to land on the moon though, even if it's not a human.
- arethuza 14y agoThey will need to be quick, China announced they are going to land a probe on the moon next year: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jp07qg62ebKq6y4WalJN1IqPawmQ?docId=CNG.6f9c903daddae1e542de26ceff457f16.481 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jp07qg62e...
- nos4A2 14y agoUmm actually india already has, look up chandrayaan..
- anonymouz 14y agoChandrayaan was a "crash landing" of an impactor (there were four others of those, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing#20th.E2.80.9321st_century_unmanned_crash_landings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing#20th.E2.80.9321st...). I think they claim they want to be the third nation to a land a small operating space craft on the moon, or something like that. I don't think that goal by itself is all that special, because in light of the fact that in the meantime many different nations have sent stuff to lunar orbit or to other planets, it doesn't seem like it would be particularly hard for any of them to land a small probe on the moon, it's just that they have prioritized different things. What would be impressive about SpaceIL would be that they would apparently be pulling it off with very little resources. But then again, there are many teams other than to SpaceIL in the Google Lunar X Prize competition, and at this point they may all have an equal right to claim to try to be the "third on the moon"...