Israel's SpaceIL secures funds for new lunar mission
SpaceIL, the nonprofit Israeli initiative whose spacecraft crashed on the moon two years ago, said Sunday that it has secured $70 million in funding to make a second attempt at a lunar landing.
SpaceIL, the nonprofit Israeli initiative whose spacecraft crashed on the moon two years ago, said Sunday that it has secured $70 million in funding to make a second attempt at a lunar landing.
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A professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville will help analyze moon rocks collected decades ago and never before opened.
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