SpaceIL's Lunar Lander Beresheet Has Crashed into the Moon

This is sad. That said I don't think of it as 'failure' after all there was so much accomplished that they got to the point of landing something on the Moon. That they failed to complete the objective puts them in rarified company. NASA and Russia had many failures [1] prior to achieving successful landings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lunar_probes

It surprised me how inspiring this project has been for kids in Israel. They REALLY cared. My children (11 and 7) followed every piece of news for months, and now stayed up to watch it, and are really heartbroken. My wife says on a parents group she's on, people are reporting their children are crying and don't want to go to bed. I actually wish I cared that much.

I was watching the broadcast and the disappointment and sadness of seeing so many years of work abruptly disappear in an instant was palpable.

A valuable lesson in failure and finding motivation to keep going and try again, a valuable life and entrepreneurial skill.

They estimated 2-3 years to try again. If they can raise funding they're going to try.

we crash, we learn. עם ישראל חי

Dang. Hopefully they figure out what went wrong and stick the landing next time.