On February 22, 2019, the American Falcon 9 launch vehicle, launched from the US Air Force base at Cape Canaveral (Florida), launched with great fanfare the Israeli lunar module "Bereshit", which was to land on April 11 at about 22:00 A sea of clarity.
The Israelis were, as it were, so confident in the success of the mission that the message of the "arrival on the moon" of the device was broadcast even on the scoreboard of the Ben-Gurion International Airport. However, circumstances developed in such a way that at a distance of about 10 kilometers from the surface of the Moon, the "Bereshit" brake engine did not turn on and the module crashed into the Moon at a speed of 134 m / s.
Israel called the incident a "great victory", since flying so close to the moon is still a great technical achievement, especially since the missiles of Iran's main geopolitical opponent can hardly fly away from the cosmodrome.
Since not everyone in the world in the world is very fond of Israel, it is natural that songs and dances about the "lunar landing" began in Gaza and other places, which is also unfair, like the "great victory" declared by Israel.
But what is this if not victory and not defeat? The answer to this question is - it is like the truth, that is, it is, as always, somewhere nearby - you just need to search a little. So let's search.
The first spacecraft in the world to make a soft landing on the moon was the Soviet automatic station Luna-9, which looked something like this:
Promotional video:
And this is the lunar module itself:
The station was controlled by approximately the following apparatus:
Now let's honestly answer the question: is it possible to compare this 1966 firewood with "Bereshit" - a station that was collected by a country that is a leader in avionics?
That's right - you can't compare it. If the Soviet engineers who assembled Luna-9 were shown "Bereshit", they would not understand anything about the technology and would have decided that it was a UFO fragment or something that had been dropped by the gods.
Only three years have passed since Luna-9 - and the Americans showed the world a miracle in general: the landing of a sailboat made of papier-mâché and foil:
The technologies there were, of course, a little better than on Luna-9, but before the production of the Israeli military-industrial complex of the 2019 model, the American missile engineers had to develop for another 50 years. Hence the question arises: how, using antediluvian computing devices, relict communication systems and jet engines, which were only 20 years old, people were able to solve the most difficult engineering problem of delivering a man to the moon? At the same time, in 2019, people could not repeat a simple lunar lunar piece of iron? It's impossible.
Explanations about “the engine failed” do not roll. Everything in spacecraft has a tremendous margin of safety, everything has duplicate modules. Well, this engine could not just refuse. This raises the question: what happened?
What happened was that some people in Israel apparently imagined themselves to be tough geopolitical players and decided to open the door to the space club with their feet. That is, if the Americans and the Chinese can take photoshopping astronauts jumping on the Moon, why can't we? There are filming pavilions, 3D specialists are also available, so you can fly even to Mars.
But, apparently, the higher people convincingly explained to the Israelis that only China and the United States are allowed to shoot fantastic blockbusters. Today, even if Russia decides to join the film industry, it is not a fact that it will be allowed.
Therefore, in view of all these circumstances, a Solomon decision was made: Israel was, as it were, allowed to play cosmonauts, but on the condition that everything ended with the crashed apparatus. Photoshop is no longer in rank, it is already for representatives of the elite of the space film industry.
Why Israel was not allowed to follow in the footsteps of Stanley Kubrick - we do not know, but since they were not allowed - then there is some good reason for that. She was the cause of the mysterious "catastrophe" of the Israeli apparatus.
