The feat cements the country’s growing prowess in space and technology as it joins the United States, the Soviet Union and China in achieving a moon landing.
India has landed a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, an unchartered territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water and precious elements.Journalists film the live telecast of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 landing on the moon at ISRO’s Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network facility in Bengaluru, India.
After a failed attempt nearly four years ago, India made history by becoming the first country to touch down near the little-explored south pole region and joins the United States, the Soviet Union and China in achieving a moon landing.India’s successful landing comes just days after Russia’s Luna-25, which was aiming for the same lunar region,It would have been the first successful Russian lunar landing after a gap of 47 years.
“India is on the moon,” said S. Somanath, chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation as the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft landed on the lunar south pole.
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