Friends!

Friends! The first Israeli moonlight will go to the Moon. In Israel, at the aircraft industry, they have already started to collect the skeleton of the newest spacecraft in the form of a cone.

The non-profit organization SpaceIL will play a major role in the development of the moonlight. Three engineers - Yar Bash, Kfir Damari, and Jonathan Weintraub created it in 2011 with the sole aim of sending a space ship from Israel to the Moon. The company has already entered the final of the international competition "Google Lunar X PRIZE", where five teams from the leading countries compete. Now their moonlight has to become the first to sit on the satellite, walk along the surface of at least 500 meters and send a photo to Earth from there. If the Israeli spacecraft wins, the company will receive $ 20 million for further development.

The spacecraft was named "Integration". It has already installed 8 engines. Soon tests will take place, and in the end of 2017 - in 2018 they plan to launch a moonlight in space.

But the main thing for the founders of SpaceIL is not a victory and not even participation. The main goal is educational. Young people should get acquainted with the initiatives to explore space, they must inspire them, and due to this – the will become interested in science, studying mathematics and engineering art in depth. What, if not a living example of achievements can awaken the boom of curiosity?