{"id":82031,"date":"2018-08-24T22:42:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T05:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/india-says-it-will-send-a-human-to-space-by-2022"},"modified":"2018-08-24T22:42:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T05:42:50","slug":"india-says-it-will-send-a-human-to-space-by-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/india-says-it-will-send-a-human-to-space-by-2022","title":{"rendered":"India says it will send a human to space by 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/india-says-it-will-send-a-human-to-space-by-20222.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The announcement came as a surprise to many people within ISRO, the country\u2019s space agency.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Such a feat would make India just the fourth country to put a human into space, after Russia, the United States, and China. But it was soon revealed that the announcement came as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/human-space-mission-will-generate-about-15-000-jobs-isro-chairman\/story-IeFhE7nJ4unCOxiA4AbVpL.html\">surprise<\/a> to many people within ISRO, the country\u2019s space agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were not expecting it,\u201d said ISRO chairman K. Sivan in a press conference, before adding, \u201cIt is not an unrealistic schedule. We are confident of achieving it even before 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/guest-blogs\/india-human-spaceflight-announcement.html\">http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/guest-blogs\/india-human-space...ement.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement came as a surprise to many people within ISRO, the country\u2019s space agency. Such a feat would make India just the fourth country to put a human into space, after Russia, the United States, and China. But it was soon revealed that the announcement came as a surprise to many people within ISRO, [\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-82031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82031","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=82031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}