Israeli Moon Lander to Touch Down Near Apollo Landing Sites Next Month

Beresheet, the first privately launched moon lander, has a site selected -- and it’s in a fairly familiar locale. Scientists at Israeli spaceflight company SpaceIL, working with Jim Head of Brown University -- who also worked on the Apollo missions -- chose Mare Serenitatis as the landing spot for their historic moon landing. It's free of large rocks and craters, obstacles that can prove hazardous or even fatal to landers, something that also appealed to a very different set of moon missi

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