Space travel
NASA released photos of the crash area by SpaceIL's “Beresheet” spacecraft, which failed to land on the moon, April 11, 2019. (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University via JNS)
October 21, 2021, 9:34 am
Israel, UAE sign agreement to partner on mission to moon in 2024
The upcoming mission will carry a satellite to determine the exact time for the new moon, as both Jews and Muslims use lunar-based calendars.
By JNS
William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk from the television program Star Trek. (NBC Television/Wikipedia/public domain)
September 26, 2021, 9:49 pm
William Shatner, at 90, set to boldly go to space
Over 50 years since he first piloted the Starship Enterprise, Jewish-Canadian actor will reportedly take a real-life trip off-planet aboard Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket ship
By The Times of Israel Staff
Jay Apt on the flight deck of the Shuttle Full Fuselage Trainer now located at the Seattle Museum of Flight (Photo by Arthur H. Barber)
July 14, 2021, 2:22 pm
Astronaut Jay Apt’s career launched — and landed — in Pittsburgh
Now a professor at CMU, Apt talks about his time in space, his research and his views of private space travel
By Sarah Abrams
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