India's space agency loses contact with lunar lander throwing into question whether it successfully completed historic mission to land on the moon's south pole. - NBCNewsMACH
Then an official with the Indian Space Research Organization made a solemn announcement at about 4:47 p.m. ET.
"The communications from the lander to ground station was lost. The data is being analyzed," ISRO chief Kailasavadivoo Sivan announced to mission control. Prime Minister Narendra Modi sat in a glass-enclosed room, above a small army of ISRO personnel at mission control in the southern city of Bengaluru.
Indian Space Research Organization employees react as they wait for an announcement by organizations's chief Kailasavadivoo Sivan at its Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network facility in Bangalore, India, on Sept. 7, 2019.And at 5:03 p.m. ET, Modi issued a statement congratulating the space agency — no matter the result.."These are moments to be courageous, and courageous we will be!"Only the U.S., Russia and China have landed spacecraft on the moon.
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