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Israel’s spacecraft crash lands on the moon

One of the last photos taken by Beresheet of the moon's surface before it crashed. [Reuters]

Israel's attempt at a moon landing failed at the last minute on Thursday when the craft suffered an engine failure as it prepared to land and apparently crashed onto the lunar surface.

"We didn't make it, but we definitely tried," project originator and major backer Morris Kahn said in a live videocast from mission control near Tel Aviv.

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