{"id":57869,"date":"2023-08-28T14:45:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T05:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/28\/first-edition-india-moon-landing"},"modified":"2023-08-28T14:45:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T05:45:28","slug":"monday-briefing-the-story-of-indias-space-programme-and-why-it-took-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57869","title":{"rendered":"Monday briefing: The story of India\u2019s space programme \u2013 and why it took off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s newsletter: The country\u2019s lunar landing was a triumph. This is how it quietly built a successful mission<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2022\/sep\/20\/sign-up-for-the-first-edition-newsletter-our-free-news-email\">Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First Edition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Last week India <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/aug\/23\/india-chandrayaan-3-moon-landing-mission\">became the fourth ever country<\/a> to land a spacecraft on the moon, and the first to touch down successfully near its south pole. It was hailed as a success for \u201cbudget\u201d missions, with the project costing \u00a360m, less than half of the \u00a3131m it cost Christopher Nolan to make his 2014 space epic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2014\/nov\/09\/interstellar-review-sci-fi-spectacle-delivers\">Interstellar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/28\/first-edition-india-moon-landing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s newsletter: The country\u2019s lunar landing was a triumph. This is how it quietly built a successful mission\u2022 Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning.Last week India became the fourth ever country to land a spacecraft on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2421,"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":[62,1584,299,61,297,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-nasa","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-space","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57869","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\/2421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57870,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57869\/revisions\/57870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}