![]() But if it is successful, it will be the first-ever privately funded probe to do so. It will take a couple of months for Beresheet to reach the moon, and landing will be the most difficult part. ![]() ![]() On Thursday evening, SpaceIL’s spacecraft - called Beresheet, a Hebrew word that means “in the beginning” - launched aboard a SpaceX rocket. ![]() “Little did I realize how much it would involve me and what responsibility I would eventually undertake,” he said. That includes more than $40 million of Kahn’s money and millions more raised from friends and business acquaintances. A decade later, they’ve spent roughly $100 million. The team, named SpaceIL, initially estimated it would have to raise less than $10 million. “I said, ‘Come to my office and I’ll give you $100,000. “I asked them whether they had any money, and they said ‘money….money…What’s that?’” Kahn jokingly told CNN Business. But, Kahn figured the group might have the gusto to get it done. Only governments with massive treasuries have ever safely landed a spacecraft on the lunar surface: the United States, China and the former Soviet Union. Morris Kahn, an Israeli software entrepreneur, heard about young engineers in his home country who wanted to build a robotic moon lander and win a $20 million prize.
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