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You can watch the landing here [1] starting in 90min

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMdUcchBYRA

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There has been news about it for a while. There was some concern of pre-publicizing the attempt if it were to fail.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/science/beresheet-israel-...

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/19/watch-the-historic-first-p...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/26/18239738/spaceil-bereshee...

SpaceX's goals of creating a Mars colony with millions of people moving there in 20-60 years andreducing most long-distance travel on Earth to ~40 minutes create much wider audiences with huge excitement attached to every move. Also, Elon Musk is a celebrity and drives a lot of SpaceX interest.

Israel's SpaceIL is much smaller, has much more constrained focus and draws a smaller crowd due to the less-epic plans and less-known personalities. Not to take away from their accomplishments - I love this news story - but are lots of reasons that this is less-publicized as compared to SpaceX launches.

We all know that each successful SpaceX activity gets us closer to a Mars colony and that is super duper exciting.