{"id":314903,"date":"2019-09-07T05:15:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T05:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314903"},"modified":"2019-09-07T05:15:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T05:15:41","slug":"chandrayaan-2-pm-modi-says-be-courageous-dont-lose-hope-after-loss-of-contact-with-lander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/chandrayaan-2-pm-modi-says-be-courageous-dont-lose-hope-after-loss-of-contact-with-lander\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandrayaan 2: PM Modi says &#8216;be courageous&#8217;, &#8216;don\u2019t lose hope&#8217; after loss of contact with Lander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314904 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Modi-isro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"979\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/Modi-isro.jpg 979w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/Modi-isro-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/Modi-isro-768x380.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/Modi-isro-324x160.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/Modi-isro-696x344.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/Modi-isro-850x420.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 979px) 100vw, 979px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked ISRO scientists to be courageous and not to lose heart after India&#8217;s space agency announced that communication with Chandrayaan-2&#8217;s Vikram lander was lost before touchdown on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It is not a small achievement and the country is proud of you, said Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India is proud of our scientists! They have given their best and have always made India proud. These are moments to be courageous, and courageous we will be. We remain hopeful and will continue working hard on our space programme, Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Minister Amit Shah said ISRO\u2019s achievement with getting Chandrayaan-2 so far has made every India proud. He wished them for future endeavours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cISRO\u2019s achievement with getting Chandrayaan-2 so far has made every Indian proud. India stands with our committed and hard working scientists at @isro. My best wishes for future endeavours,\u201d Amit Shah tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress leader Rahul Gandhi congratulated the ISRO team for their incredible work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongratulations to the team at #ISRO for their incredible work on the Chandrayaan 2 Moon Mission. Your passion &amp; dedication is an inspiration to every Indian. Your work is not in vain. It has laid the foundation for many more path breaking &amp; ambitious Indian space missions,\u201d Rahul tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also in a tweet encouraged scientists and said, \u2018we are proud of them\u2019. They have done a great job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe are proud of our scientists. They have created history. No need to lose heart. Our scientists have done a great job,\u201d Kejriwal tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked ISRO scientists to be courageous and not to lose heart after India&#8217;s space agency announced that communication with Chandrayaan-2&#8217;s Vikram lander was lost before touchdown on Saturday. It is not a small achievement and the country is proud of you, said Modi. India is proud of our scientists! They have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,36,2072,2014],"tags":[10570,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314905,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314903\/revisions\/314905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}