{"id":773310,"date":"2023-11-15T03:48:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T07:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773310"},"modified":"2023-11-15T03:48:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T07:48:53","slug":"why-its-a-big-deal-that-india-beat-russia-in-the-new-race-to-the-moon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773310","title":{"rendered":"Why it&#8217;s a big deal that India beat Russia in the new race to the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">3D image of the Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander on the moon<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">ISRO\/LEOS\/SAC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>The following is an extract from our monthly Launchpad newsletter, in which resident space expert Leah Crane journeys through the solar system and beyond. You can sign up for Launchpad for free\u00a0here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over the past several weeks, the destination on everybody\u2019s mind has been the moon. Russia\u2019s Luna 25 lander launched on 11 August and then crash-landed on 19 August. India\u2019s Chandrayaan-3 mission, which launched back in July and has been orbiting the moon for \u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2391065-why-its-a-big-deal-that-india-beat-russia-in-the-new-race-to-the-moon\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D image of the Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander on the moon ISRO\/LEOS\/SAC The following is an extract from our monthly Launchpad newsletter, in which resident space expert Leah Crane journeys through&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":773311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/773311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}