Watch SpaceX Launch the First Private Lunar Lander Mission

SpaceX launched the first private lunar landing mission on Thursday evening, sending an Israeli spacecraft cratering toward the moon and taking a leap for commercial space missions.

A Falcon9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying a privately funded Israeli spacecraft that seeks to measure the magnetic field of the moon, according to The New York Times.

SpaceX launched the first private lunar landing mission on Thursday evening, sending an Israeli spacecraft cratering toward the moon and taking a leap for commercial space missions. A Falcon9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying a privately funded Israeli spacecraft that seeks to measure the magnetic field of the moon, according to The New York Times.