{"id":31999,"date":"2019-03-01T03:47:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T11:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=31999"},"modified":"2019-02-27T13:09:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T21:09:02","slug":"successful-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2019\/03\/01\/successful-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the Israel Aerospace Industries control room to witness the launch of Israel\u2019s first attempt to put a lander on the moon. <em>(photo from IAI courtesy Ashernet)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the early hours of Feb. 22, <em>Bereishit<\/em>, which means Genesis, successfully lifted off on one of Elon Musk\u2019s U.S.-based SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets. It is hoped that the 585-kilogram Israeli space vehicle will land on the moon in about six weeks\u2019 time. \u201cThere are four countries that have launched a spacecraft to the moon, one of them is 800 times bigger than we are, one of them 500 times bigger, and one that is a little less than that,\u201d said Netanyahu, referring to the United States, Russia and China. \u201cWe are a small country, but huge in achievements and in the capacity of our initiative. I hope that the spacecraft to Mars is already being planned.\u201d He also said he hopes that, on April 11, \u201cwe will be able to celebrate the safe landing of Bereishit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the Israel Aerospace Industries control room to witness the launch of Israel\u2019s first attempt to put a lander on the moon. (photo from IAI courtesy Ashernet) In the early hours of Feb. 22, Bereishit, which means Genesis, successfully lifted off on one of Elon Musk\u2019s U.S.-based SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4329],"tags":[4341,8758,4330,8759,8757,3890,1881],"class_list":["post-31999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-binyamin-netanyahu","tag-iai","tag-israel","tag-israel-aerospace-industries","tag-moon","tag-space","tag-technology"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}