India’s lunar spacecraft landed safely near the Moon’s little-explored south pole on Wednesday, sparking wild celebrations and applause among technicians guiding the mission.”Chandrayaan-3 has successfully soft-landed on the Moon,” the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced at its headquarters.
Joining the US, the Soviet Union and China, India is now officially the fourth country to have landed on the Moon.
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It is the first country to have reached the unexplored lunar south pole.
New Delhi’s attempt comes days after the crash-landing on the Moon of Russia’s Luna-25 probe.Chandrayaan-3, which means “Mooncraft” in Sanskrit, follows India’s successful launch of a probe into lunar orbit in 2008 and a failed lunar landing in 2019. The mission launched in mid-July and orbited Earth several times to build up the necessary speed for its journey.
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