{"id":40754,"date":"2019-09-06T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40754"},"modified":"2019-09-06T14:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:11:10","slug":"how-to-watch-the-indian-moon-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40754","title":{"rendered":"How to watch the Indian moon landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London  (CNN)<\/cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/india\" target=\"_blank\">India<\/a> hopes to become only the fourth country &#8212; behind the US, the former Soviet Union and China &#8212; to make a soft landing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/09\/04\/world\/india-moon-lunar-chandrayaan-2-explainer-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">surface of the moon<\/a> when its Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft attempts the feat early Saturday local time (Friday eastern time). <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Chandrayaan-2, which translates as &#8220;moon vehicle&#8221; in Sanskrit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/22\/asia\/india-space-ambitions-moon-launch-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">took off<\/a> from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota on July 22, a week after its <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/14\/asia\/india-moon-rover-launch-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">first launch was called off<\/a> due to a &#8220;technical snag&#8221;. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) reported that its orbiter and landing module <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/20\/asia\/chandrayaan-2-india-lunar-orbit-scli-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">successfully separated<\/a> on Monday &#8212; six weeks into the mission. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN)India hopes to become only the fourth country &#8212; behind the US, the former Soviet Union and China &#8212; to make a soft landing on the surface of the moon when its Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft attempts the feat early Saturday local time (Friday eastern time). Chandrayaan-2, which translates as &#8220;moon vehicle&#8221; in Sanskrit, took off&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40754","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\/40754","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=40754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}