{"id":19722,"date":"2023-07-15T03:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T03:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=19722"},"modified":"2023-07-15T03:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T03:22:54","slug":"day-before-moon-mission-launch-team-visits-tirupathi-temple-with-model-of-chandrayaan-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2023\/07\/15\/day-before-moon-mission-launch-team-visits-tirupathi-temple-with-model-of-chandrayaan-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Before Moon Mission, Launch Team Visits Tirupathi Temple With Model Of Chandrayaan-3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TIRUPATI, INDIA, July 13, 2023 (ndtv.com): A day ahead of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, a team of ISRO scientists visited and offered prayers at Tirupathi Venkatachalapathy Temple in Andhra Pradesh with a miniature model of Chandrayaan-3 today. &#8220;This is Chandrayaan-3 &#8212; our mission to the moon. Our launch is scheduled tomorrow,&#8221; a scientist told reporters after offering prayers and showing them the model at the Tirupathi temple. National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL) Director Amit Kumar Patra, Project Director of Chandrayaan-3, Veeramuthu Vel, Associate Project Director of Chandrayaan-3, Kalpana Kalahasti and other senior ISRO scientists were also among the team seeking divine blessings at the temple ahead of the big-ticket launch on Friday.<br> <br>ISRO had earlier announced that Chandrayaan-3 will be launched on July 14, at 2:35 pm IST from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. Chandrayaan-3, India&#8217;s third lunar exploration mission, will make India the fourth country to land its spacecraft on the moon&#8217;s surface and demonstrate its ability for safe and soft landing on the lunar surface. The countdown for the launch will begin later today, ahead of take-off tomorrow from Sriharikota.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/isro-team-visits-tirupathi-with-small-model-of-chandrayaan-3-day-before-mission-4203052?utm_source=ground.news&amp;utm_medium=referral\n\">https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/isro-team-visits-tirupathi-with-small-model-of-chandrayaan-3-day-before-mission-4203052?utm_source=ground.news&amp;utm_medium=referral<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIRUPATI, INDIA, July 13, 2023 (ndtv.com): A day ahead of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, a team of ISRO scientists visited and,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19728,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19722\/revisions\/19728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}