{"id":170357,"date":"2023-08-24T01:33:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T06:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/india-becomes-fourth-nation-to-land-on-the-moon-and-first-to-south-pole"},"modified":"2023-08-24T01:33:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T06:33:45","slug":"india-becomes-fourth-nation-to-land-on-the-moon-and-first-to-south-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/india-becomes-fourth-nation-to-land-on-the-moon-and-first-to-south-pole","title":{"rendered":"India Becomes Fourth Nation To Land On The Moon\u2014And First To South Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DLA_64yz8Ss?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>India has joined the U.S., China and the former USSR in successfully soft-landing a spacecraft on the surface of the moon. The uncrewed Chandrayaan-3 mission has also become the first to land close to the moon\u2019s south pole.<\/p>\n<p>About 15 minutes after initiating its Automatic Landing Sequence (ALS), Chandrayaan-3\u2019s Lander Module (LM) touched down around 8:34 a.m. EDT. Images were streamed live on YouTube from the Indian Space Research Agency (ISRO) control room in Bengaluru, India.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>India\u2019s uncrewed Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully landed today close to the moon\u2019s south pole. It joins an elite club of only four nations to soft-land on the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has joined the U.S., China and the former USSR in successfully soft-landing a spacecraft on the surface of the moon. The uncrewed Chandrayaan-3 mission has also become the first to land close to the moon\u2019s south pole. About 15 minutes after initiating its Automatic Landing Sequence (ALS), Chandrayaan-3\u2019s Lander Module (LM) touched down around [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}