History on the move: The lunar mission of Israel's Beresheet spacecraft is launched tonight | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | Hana Levi Julian | 17 Adar I 5779 – 21 February 2019

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Photo credit: SpaceIL / IAI

On the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport, the container carrying the SpaceIL Beresheet Lander is waiting to be loaded into the prepared cargo plane.

Israel's space shuttle Beresheet enters the story of tonight by undertaking its historic mission on the moon. The trip to the surface of the moon should last eight weeks.

JewishPress.com offers readers three options to reach millions of people watching live live as the lunar robot takes off at the top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida. The event is scheduled to take place at 8:45 pm EST (Friday, February 22 at 3:45 am Jerusalem time).

Watch it here on Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX

The flight can also be viewed via a live webcast on Facebook, broadcasting a live stream from Israel's Aerospace Industry Center in Yehud. "After the launch, our crew will take control of Beresheet and begin their journey to the moon!"

Here is the explanation of a layman on how Beresheet will arrive at destination.

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