New Delhi: Only half of the lunar missions involving landing on moon surface have succeeded in the last six decades, according to NASA. There have been a total of 109 lunar missions from 1958, out of which 61 were successful, says the US space agency’s ‘Moon Fact Sheet’. As many as 46 missions involved landing […]
Jerusalem: Israel’s Beresheet, the first privately-funded mission to the moon, crashed in the last part of its journey, moments before it was supposed to land, the media reported. The spacecraft aimed to perform a soft landing on the moon and would have made Israel the fourth country to do so — and by far the […]