Congratulations to Tamir Klaff who was
recently appointed Director of Space Robots at Astrobotics, a company
that builds moon landers and space rovers.
Earlier this week NASA in
conjunction with
Astrobotics launched
an unmanned vehicle,
Peregrine,
with a Vulcan rocket. This is the first US rocket to the moon
in 50 years and the
Peregrine will
perform various experiments on the moon.
You can read about the launch and mission
here.
The lander separated successfully from the rocket but there was a
problem with a fuel leak and the
Peregrine
mission
was in danger as its batteries were not charging (s
ee
report here.). Attempts to correct worked but not enough fuel
remained and the lander was not able to land on the moon.
Video report on the mission
on CNN
(Of interest is that there is much controvesy over the fact that the
moonlander carried human remains - the ashes of two persons.
see
CNN)
Tamir is the son of Frankie and my late cousin Vivian Klaff. (
see Goldberg family tree).