{"id":171637,"date":"2023-09-09T05:25:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T10:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/japan-lunar-lander-begins-journey-to-moon-following-indias-success"},"modified":"2023-09-09T05:25:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T10:25:56","slug":"japan-lunar-lander-begins-journey-to-moon-following-indias-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/japan-lunar-lander-begins-journey-to-moon-following-indias-success","title":{"rendered":"Japan lunar lander begins journey to moon following India\u2019s success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-lunar-lander-begins-journey-to-moon-following-indias-success.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO \u2014 Japan launched a lunar lander on Thursday, aiming to become the fifth nation to achieve a soft landing on the moon\u2019s surface early next year following India\u2019s success in a similar mission last month.<\/p>\n<p>The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) was sent to space on an H-IIA rocket, the first launch since a high-profile launch failure of the next-generation H3 rocket in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO \u2014 Japan launched a lunar lander on Thursday, aiming to become the fifth nation to achieve a soft landing on the moon\u2019s surface early next year following India\u2019s success in a similar mission last month. The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) was sent to space on an H-IIA rocket, the first launch since [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171637","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}