NEWS: Israel's first lunar lander went into space from Florida
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On Thursday night, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Florida, carrying Israel's first lunar lander. If successful, it would make the Jewish nation the fourth country to achieve a controlled landing on the lunar surface.
The unmanned robot lander, known as Beresheet-Hebrew, is used in the Biblical phrase "the beginning" - which soared from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to space at 8:45 p.m. Eastern Time (1:45 a.m. GMT) on a 23-story rocket.
Beresheet, about the size of a dishwasher, is one of three high-altitude cargo packages carried by Falcon 9, part of the private rocket fleet of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company in California.
The other two payloads of the rocket are the Indonesian communication satellite and the experimental satellite of the United States Air Force.