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Egyptian Businessman Mohamed Mansour Given Knighthood

Members of the Cambridge rowing team practice in the Thames ahead of The Gemini Boat Race against Oxford rowing team, in London, on March 27, 2024. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
Members of the Cambridge rowing team practice in the Thames ahead of The Gemini Boat Race against Oxford rowing team, in London, on March 27, 2024. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
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Egyptian Businessman Mohamed Mansour Given Knighthood

Members of the Cambridge rowing team practice in the Thames ahead of The Gemini Boat Race against Oxford rowing team, in London, on March 27, 2024. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
Members of the Cambridge rowing team practice in the Thames ahead of The Gemini Boat Race against Oxford rowing team, in London, on March 27, 2024. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

Mohamed Mansour, a businessman and former Egyptian government minister, has been given a knighthood in the United Kingdom for his business, charity and political service.

The Egyptian-born business tycoon, who has British citizenship, is the chairman of the Mansour Group and founded the London-based investment firm Man Capital.

Mansour was joined in receiving a knighthood by Demis Hassabis, founder of artificial intelligence company DeepMind, and by film-making couple Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas, who will receive a knighthood and a damehood. American businessman Ted Sarandos, the co-chief of Netflix, was given an honorary knighthood.

Backbench MP Philip Davies and Mark Spencer were also knighted, while Tracey Crouch, a former minister, was made a dame along with Treasury committee chair Harriett Baldwin.

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Private Lunar Lander is Declared Dead after Landing Sideways in Crater Near Moon's South Pole

Private lunar lander Blue Ghost's shadow is seen on the moon's surface after touching down on the moon with a special delivery for NASA, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (NASA/Firefly Aerospace via AP)
Private lunar lander Blue Ghost's shadow is seen on the moon's surface after touching down on the moon with a special delivery for NASA, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (NASA/Firefly Aerospace via AP)
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Private Lunar Lander is Declared Dead after Landing Sideways in Crater Near Moon's South Pole

Private lunar lander Blue Ghost's shadow is seen on the moon's surface after touching down on the moon with a special delivery for NASA, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (NASA/Firefly Aerospace via AP)
Private lunar lander Blue Ghost's shadow is seen on the moon's surface after touching down on the moon with a special delivery for NASA, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (NASA/Firefly Aerospace via AP)

A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday.
The news came less than 24 hours after the botched landing attempt by Texas-based Intuitive Machines.
Launched last week, the lander named Athena, missed its mark by more than 800 feet (250 meters) and ended up in a frigid crater, the company said.
It managed to send back pictures confirming its position and activate a few experiments before going silent. NASA and other customers had packed the lander with an ice drill, drone and pair of rovers.
It's unlikely Athena's batteries can be recharged given the way the lander's solar panels are pointed and the extreme cold in the crater.
“The mission has concluded and teams are continuing to assess the data collected throughout the mission,” the company said in a statement.
This was the second landing attempt for Intuitive Machines. The first, a year ago, also ended with a sideways landing, but the company was able to keep it going for longer than this time despite hampered communications and operations.
Earlier in the week, another Texas company scored a successful landing under NASA’s commercial lunar delivery program. Firefly Aerospace put its Blue Ghost lander down in the far northern latitudes of the moon’s near side.