The Triumph of a Failed Moon Landing

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The Beresheet lunar lander failed in the last few kilometers of its descent to the Moon. Two days later we learned that its team would try again. Deputy Mission Director Yoav Landsman is back with an inspiring and revealing look behind the scenes. Planetary Society Digital Editor Jason Davis looks forward to the launch of LightSail2 now that a second SpaceX Falcon Heavy has enjoyed spectacular success. And your guide to the busy night sky is provided by Bruce Betts. Special program note: Catch Mat Kaplan on the Discovery Channel documentary about Beresheet, Return to the Moon, Sunday, April 21st at 11:00am Eastern. You can learn more about this week’s guests and topics at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/0417-2019-yoav-landsman-beresheet.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Triumph of a failed Moon Landing this week on planetary radio.
0:09.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar
0:15.5	system and beyond.
0:17.2	We had a failure in the spacecraft.
0:21.1	We unfortunately have not managed to land successfully. We are the seventh country to orbit the moon and the fourth to reach the moon's surface.
0:30.0	It's a tremendous achievement up to now.
0:32.0	Well, we didn't make it, but we definitely tried.
0:36.0	And I think that the achievement of getting to where we got is really tremendous.
0:41.0	I think we can be proud. That was what we heard when it was
0:47.2	clear that Berishit, the little lunar lander from Space I. L. in Israel
0:52.1	had been lost. The last voice was Morris Khan, Chairman of Space
0:56.6	I L and a major donor to the project, were minutes away from another visit with
1:01.5	the Deputy Mission Director
1:03.0	Yoav Landsman. Bruce Betts will join us as always for What's Up
1:07.2	and we've got Planetary Society Digital Editor Jason Davis
1:11.4	on the second successful flight of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
1:16.4	First though, some announcements of our own.
1:18.8	The next few weeks are going to be some of the busiest in the history of Planetary Radio,
1:22.8	albeit Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
1:24.7	for the annual CubSat Developers Workshop.
1:27.7	More about that with Jason.
1:29.6	Saturday, April 27th,
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