{"id":40203,"date":"2019-07-22T16:22:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T16:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40203"},"modified":"2019-07-22T16:22:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T16:22:55","slug":"success-in-indias-second-attempt-at-launching-moon-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40203","title":{"rendered":"Success in India&#8217;s second attempt at launching Moon mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi (CNN)<\/cite>India has successfully launched a mission to soft land a rover on the moon, in a landmark moment for a nation trying to become a space superpower. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The country&#8217;s latest lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, which means &#8220;moon vehicle&#8221; in Sanskrit, took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh state at 2:43 p.m., Monday local time (5:13 am ET). <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The launch was originally scheduled for July 15, but was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/14\/asia\/india-moon-rover-launch-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">abruptly called off<\/a> just 56 minutes before lift-off due to a &#8220;technical snag.&#8221; India is now on the way to becoming the fourth country &#8212; in addition to United States, China and the former Soviet Union &#8212; to make a soft-landing on the lunar surface.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (CNN)India has successfully launched a mission to soft land a rover on the moon, in a landmark moment for a nation trying to become a space superpower. The country&#8217;s latest lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, which means &#8220;moon vehicle&#8221; in Sanskrit, took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh state&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40203","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\/40203","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=40203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}