Israel abandons plan of sending second aircraft to Moon

Israel's SpaceIL has officially declared that itis going to abandon plans for going to the moon for the second time after a crash landing in its original mission earlier this spring.

The news came in from the official Twitter handle of SpaceIL where it said, "This time, we will not go to the moon. Beresheet's journey to the Moon was already received as a successful, record-breaking journey. Instead, we will seek out another, significant objective for Beresheet 2.0. More details to follow..."