{"id":56655,"date":"2023-07-14T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T00:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/14\/india-readies-historic-moon-mission-as-it-seeks-to-cement-position-as-a-space-power"},"modified":"2023-07-14T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T05:56:09","slug":"india-readies-historic-moon-mission-as-it-seeks-to-cement-position-as-a-space-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56655","title":{"rendered":"India readies historic moon mission as it seeks to cement position as a space power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chandrayaan-3 is set to blast off from a spaceport in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s space agency has made final preparations for the launch of a rocket that will attempt to land a rover on the moon and mark the country\u2019s arrival as a power in space exploration.<\/p>\n<p>Only the United States, the former Soviet Union and China have made successful lunar landings. An attempt by a Japanese start-up earlier this year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/26\/japan-ispace-moon-lander-hakuto-r-probably-crashed-lunar-surface\">ended with the lander crashing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/14\/india-readies-historic-moon-mission-as-it-seeks-to-cement-position-as-a-space-power\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chandrayaan-3 is set to blast off from a spaceport in the southern state of Andhra PradeshIndia\u2019s space agency has made final preparations for the launch of a rocket that will attempt to land a rover on the moon and mark the country\u2019s arrival as a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,61,297],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-space"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56661,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56655\/revisions\/56661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}