Beresheet makes final engine burn before entering lunar orbit
The privately funded Israeli lunar lander Beresheet has successfully completed its final engine burn and is now on course to enter lunar orbit on April 4.
The landing is still scheduled for April 11, in the Sea of Serenity.
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The privately funded Israeli lunar lander Beresheet has successfully completed its final engine burn and is now on course to enter lunar orbit on April 4.
The landing is still scheduled for April 11, in the Sea of Serenity.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Cool. April 11. Anniversary of Apollo 13 launch and the day before Yuri’s Night and first Shuttle launch. Let’s hope we all have something special to celebrate.
Mike-
Great factoids!
I don’t know if this has been mentioned before, but “Beresheet” (בְּרֵאשִׁית) is also the name of the first book of Moses (Genesis), and also the first word of said book.
Hopefully this will be very successful, and if it truly is “In the beginning”, I’m anxious to see what comes next!