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Israel's SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)’s first lunar spacecraft, Beresheet (the Hebrew word for in the beginning), will begin a historic journey to the moon this month, when it launches from SpaceX Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The 180-kilogram spacecraft's launch is targeted for February 22, 2019. “After eight years of hard work, our dream has come true: We finally have a spacecraft,” said SpaceIL CEO Ido Anteby.

When your entire landing sequence is shorter than the time the radio signal travels from Mars to the Earth, InSight’s handlers suffered through “seven minutes of terror” until they could celebrate the success of landing on Mars.

Parker Solar Probe is alive and well after skimming by the Sun at just 15 million miles from our star’s surface. This is far closer than any spacecraft has ever gone — the previous record was set by Helios B in 1976 and broken by Parker on Oct. 29, 2018.

June 27, 2018 - Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft arrived at asteroid Ryugu Wednesday after a 3½-year journey to blow a crater in the rocky surface, collect samples and bring them back to Earth.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, about the size of a small car, will travel directly into our Sun's atmosphere about 4 million miles from the star's surface, closer than any manmade object has ever come to our home star.

Starburst through the craters of the moon herald the end of Totality in Murphy, North Carolina. The Great American Eclipse lived up to expectations.