NASA wants to create a time zone on the moon. Here’s what that means for Jewish space travelers
When Shabbat and the holidays begin and end are by no means the most important questions. It’s deeper than that
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News Israel’s first spaceship crashed on the lunar surface. Its second just ran into a more Earthly obstacle.
SpaceIL's rookie moonshot inspired a nation, and $90 million was a secured for a second attempt. But the sudden exit of a major benefactor has left the team scrambling
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Culture Moon Knight’s Star of David necklace was easy to miss. It was also a watershed moment for Marvel.
Amid a blur of hieroglyphs, ankhs and sarcophagi, it was easy to miss a more subtle symbol glinting from Oscar Isaac’s neck in last week’s installment of “Moon Knight.” Unless you happen to be Jewish and watching for signs of Jewish life. In the final minutes of the episode, Isaac’s Marc Spector wakes up in…
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Fast Forward Did Israelis Just Put Life On The Moon – By Mistake?
A botched Israeli mission may have just introduced an incredibly resilient lifeform to the moon, Wired reported Monday. The lunar lander Beresheet, which would have been the first private spacecraft to touch down softly on the moon, instead crashed on the surface in April. When it did, it dumped its contents, including a “lunar library”…
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Fast Forward Israel Space Agency Gives $5.6M To Help Launch Beresheet 2 Moon Lander
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Space Agency will put about $5.6 million toward Beresheet 2, a second attempt to land an Israeli spacecraft on the moon. The contribution is double the 10 million shekels that the agency under the auspices of the Ministry of Science gave to the first Beresheet mission, which crash landed on…
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Fast Forward Israel Already Planning Its Next Moon Mission
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Beresheet 2 project will launch effective immediately, SpaceIL chairman Morris Kahn announced on Saturday evening. In a statement posted on Facebook in both English and Hebrew, the South African born billionaire said: “We are going to actually put a new spacecraft on the moon and we are going to complete the…
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Fast Forward He Spent $40 Million On Israel’s Lunar Lander. It Crashed. How’s He Feeling Now?
Despite the disappointing news that the Israeli moon lander Beresheet crashed into the moon Thursday, benefactor Morris Kahn stayed positive. “Well we didn’t make it, but we definitely tried,” Kahn, president of SpaceIL, the nonprofit responsible for the mission, told The New York Times. “And I think the achievement of getting to where we got…
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Fast Forward Israeli Spacecraft Crashes On Moon After Engine, Communication Failure
The Israeli moon lander Beresheet on Thursday failed to be the first spacecraft built by the private sector to safely land on the moon. After entering orbit, the spacecraft lost its main engine and went into an uncontrolled descent. The Israeli spacecraft had to tackle one of the biggest challenges of its lunar journey –…
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