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Israelis to launch its first moon mission this week, sending an unmanned spacecraft to collect data to be shared with NASA.

According to a report, the 585-kilogram Beresheet (Genesis) spacecraft is to lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida at around 0145 GMT on Friday.Mission control will be in Yehud, near Tel Aviv.

TechnologyNGO SpaceIL, which is part of this mission,  president Morris Kahn



said,Israel are entering history and are proud to belong to a group that has dreamed and fulfilled the vision shared by many countries in the world but that so far only three of them have accomplished.

So far only Russia, the United States and China have sent their spacecraft to the moon. The Chinese spacecraft made the first ever soft landing on the far side of the moon on January 3.




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