{"id":57791,"date":"2023-08-23T22:50:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T13:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/aug\/23\/india-chandrayaan-3-moon-landing-mission"},"modified":"2023-08-23T22:50:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T13:50:15","slug":"india-lands-spacecraft-near-south-pole-of-moon-in-historic-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57791","title":{"rendered":"India lands spacecraft near south pole of moon in historic first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vikram lander touches down at lunar south pole shortly after 6pm India time <\/p>\n<p>India has become the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the south pole of the moon, in a historic moment that drew cheers at watching parties around the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia is on the moon,\u201d Sreedhara Panicker Somanath, the chair of the Indian Space Research Organisation, said as the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft\u2019s Vikram lander touched down shortly after 6pm (1230 BST) near the little-explored lunar south pole in a world first for any space programme.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/aug\/23\/india-chandrayaan-3-moon-landing-mission\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vikram lander touches down at lunar south pole shortly after 6pm India time India has become the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the south pole of the moon, in a historic moment that drew cheers at watching parties around the count&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2996,"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":[62,433,299,61,297,295,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-space","category-the-moon","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57791","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\/2996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57792,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57791\/revisions\/57792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}