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YEHUD, Israel (AP / KXAN) – An Israeli spacecraft has failed in its attempt to mark history as the first lunar mission funded by private funds. Part of its payload was an archive containing the original queso recipe from Kerby Lane.
The SpaceIL spacecraft lost contact with the Earth late Thursday, just before landing on the moon, and scientists said the mission was a failure. SpaceIL confirmed that the rocket was crushed in the moon.
The small space robot, built by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries, a non-profit organization, hoped to rise to a feat that only the national space agencies of three countries: the United States, Russia and China have accomplished.
"If at first you do not succeed, try again," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was present for what the organizers had hoped to be a celebration.
In February, a SpaceX rocket launched the lander and its lunar library from the Arch Mission Foundation, supposedly permanently placed on the moon. The physical archive included millions of laser-engraved documents in microscopic analog form on a Nanofiche radiation-resistant nickel disk. Mayor Steve Adler wrote a letter for the archives and included the Kerby Lane recipe.
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