(Daily Mail-UK) Mark Prigg - Israel's first moon lander has passed its final tests ahead of its historic blastoff on Feb. 18th. SpaceIL's lander - dubbed Beresheet, the Hebrew word for "In the Beginning" - will carry a "digital time capsule" alongside a suite of scientific instruments. If successful, Israel will be the fourth country to carry out a controlled "soft" landing of an unmanned vessel on the moon. "Our landing site is located somewhere between the landing sites of Apollo 15 and Apollo 17," said SpaceIL CEO Dr. Ido Anteby. "It's a flat area. But still it has small craters and a lot of boulders."
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