{"id":57794,"date":"2023-08-23T22:06:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T13:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/aug\/23\/india-chandrayaan-3-makes-historic-moon-landing-video"},"modified":"2023-08-23T22:06:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T13:06:18","slug":"indias-chandrayaan-3-mission-completes-historic-moon-landing-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57794","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Chandrayaan-3 mission completes historic moon landing \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has become the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the south pole of the moon, in a moment that drew cheers at parties around the country. Chandrayaan-3, which means &#8216;mooncraft&#8217; in Sanskrit, put down its Vikram lander shortly after 6pm (1230 GMT) near the little-explored area in a world first for any space programme. People across the country were glued to television screens and said prayers as the spacecraft approached the surface<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/aug\/23\/india-chandrayaan-3-moon-landing-mission\">India lands spacecraft near south pole of moon in world first<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/aug\/23\/india-chandrayaan-3-makes-historic-moon-landing-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has become the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the south pole of the moon, in a moment that drew cheers at parties around the country. Chandrayaan-3, which means &#8216;mooncraft&#8217; in Sanskrit, put down its Vikram lander shortly aft&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[62,297,295,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","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\/57794","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57795,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57794\/revisions\/57795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}