{"id":89381,"date":"2019-04-09T23:23:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T06:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/israeli-moon-lander-poised-for-lunar-touchdown-thursday"},"modified":"2019-04-09T23:23:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T06:23:33","slug":"israeli-moon-lander-poised-for-lunar-touchdown-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/israeli-moon-lander-poised-for-lunar-touchdown-thursday","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Moon Lander Poised for Lunar Touchdown Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israeli-moon-lander-poised-for-lunar-touchdown-thursday3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Beresheet succeeds, Israel will become just the fourth nation to land a spacecraft softly on the moon, following the Soviet Union, the United States and China.<\/p>\n<p>Beresheet is currently orbiting the moon and remains on an \u201cexcellent\u201d track, said its operators, the nonprofit group SpaceIL and the company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/israel-moon-lander-lunar-touchdown-final-approach.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Beresheet succeeds, Israel will become just the fourth nation to land a spacecraft softly on the moon, following the Soviet Union, the United States and China. Beresheet is currently orbiting the moon and remains on an \u201cexcellent\u201d track, said its operators, the nonprofit group SpaceIL and the company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89381","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=89381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}