LIFTOFF: India successfully launches an unmanned spacecraft to the far side of the moon, a week after aborting the mission due to a technical problem. It will take around 47 days to travel before landing on the moon in September.
India successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft to the far side of the moon on Monday, a week after aborting the mission due to a technical problem.
India's first moon mission orbited the moon in 2008 and helped confirm the presence of water. The country plans to send its first manned spaceflight by 2022. The launch of the $141 million moon mission a week earlier was called off less than an hour before liftoff due to a"technical snag." Media reports said the launch was aborted after scientists from the Indian Space Research Organization identified a leak while filling helium in the rocket's cryogenic engine. The space agency neither confirmed nor denied the reports, saying instead that the problem had been identified and corrected.
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