From The JC:
A team of Israeli scientists hope to boldly go where no countryman has gone before — by landing an unmanned spacecraft on the moon.
The SpaceIL project’s mission is to make Israel only the third country ever to complete a successful lunar landing.
The privately-funded effort is part of an attempt to collect the £12.5 million prize offered in the Google Lunar X competition, entered by dozens of explorers worldwide.
If successful, SpaceIL will fly a washing machine-sized craft to the moon in 2015 to take pictures and video footage and perform exploratory manoeuvres.
This is what the spacecraft will look like, apparently:
And here is some video footage of it in action:
The Clanger Solidarity Campaign are already preparing to greet the imperialists with their home made rockets.
