{"id":32443,"date":"2019-02-19T09:51:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32443"},"modified":"2019-02-19T09:51:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:51:35","slug":"israel-shoots-for-the-moon-with-privately-funded-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32443","title":{"rendered":"Israel shoots for the moon with privately funded spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Aiming to become the fourth country to make a soft landing on the moon, Israel&#8217;s non-profit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technology.spaceil.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceIL <\/a>has announced it will launch a spacecraft from Florida&#8217;s Cape Canaveral Thursday on board a Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The unmanned craft, weighing 1,300 pounds and standing approximately five feet tall, will then begin an about seven-week journey to the moon, from where it will send back images of the rocky surface and conduct experiments on the lunar magnetic field.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The spacecraft is called &#8220;Beresheet,&#8221; a reference to the first words of the Bible in Hebrew: &#8220;In the beginning&#8230;&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Aiming to become the fourth country to make a soft landing on the moon, Israel&#8217;s non-profit SpaceIL has announced it will launch a spacecraft from Florida&#8217;s Cape Canaveral Thursday on board a Falcon 9 rocket.The unmanned craft, weighing 1,300 pounds and standing approximately five feet tall, will then begin an about seven-week journey to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}