When the Apollo missions were at their peak, the idea of colonizing the moon didn’t seem that farfetched. There we were, barely 70 years after we invented the first planes, and suddenly we could send people on the moon. But after Apollo, the interest in the moon waned somewhat. NASA’s objectives shifted and suddenly, colonizing the moon seemed as far away as ever. But there was an accident. In February 2019, an unmanned probe called Beresheet built by Israel aimed to become the first private spacecraft to perform a soft landing on the moon (a landing in which you don’t crash). From the start, …