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The spaceship in Genesis

The control center of the Genesis spaceship. Photo by SpaceIL PR and the Aerospace Industry

Genesis' last maneuver near Earth was successful. The next maneuver: capture the moon

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The area where the Genesis spacecraft will land on the moon, in the northeastern part of the "Sea of ​​Calm" not far from Apollo 15 and 17. Courtesy of Prof. Oded Aharonson, Weizmann Institute

Genesis will land in the "calm sea" on the moon, not far from the two Apollo spacecraft

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Alex Friedman (left) and Yoav Landsman in the control room before the maneuver. Photo: IAI

The third maneuver of the Beresheet spacecraft was successful and it is already in an orbit with a record height of 270 thousand km

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First selfie of the Israeli spacecraft in Genesis, 5/3/2019, in which the board with the Israeli flag and the inscription "Am Yisrael Chai" is clearly visible. Photo: SPACEIL and the aerospace industry

The Genesis spacecraft sent a selfie from orbit

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The control center of the Genesis spaceship. Photo by SpaceIL PR and the Aerospace Industry

Genesis engineers overcame the problem; The spacecraft ascended to an orbit with an altitude of up to 131 thousand km

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A simulation of the spacecraft's trajectory in the beginning until the encounter with the moon. Illustration: SpaceIL and the Aerospace Industry.

First serious malfunction of the Bereshit spacecraft on the way to the moon: a sudden reboot of the computer caused the cancellation of an orbital maneuver

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The long trajectory of the spacecraft in Genesis to the moon. Illustration: SPACEIL

The engines of the Genesis spacecraft were activated for the first time - and successfully

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Rohm and his wife watch the launch next to Maurice Kahn, the president of Space Eye. Photo by Eliran Avital

Genesis was launched towards the moon, the following challenges: entering orbit around the moon and landing

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Simulation of the Genesis spacecraft on the surface of the moon. Photo: SpaceIL

The Israeli spacecraft, Berashit, will be launched to the moon this Friday, February 22

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Loading the Bereshit spacecraft onto a container that will take it from the clean room at the Aerospace Industry to the SPACEX launch facility at Cape Canaveral. Photo: Tomer Levy

The first Israeli spacecraft "Bereshit" begins its journey to the moon * was put into a container on the way to Cape Canaveral

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