SpaceIL landing selfie
An image from SpaceIL's Beresheet lander taken during its landing attempt at an altitude of about 22 kilometers. The lander crashed several minutes later when its main engine malfunctioned.

An Israeli lunar lander originally built to win a prize competition crashed onto the surface of the moon April 11 when its main engine malfunctioned during descent.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...