Bengaluru, Aug. 23 (IANS): It was a giant leap for India on Wednesday evening, as the Chandrayaan-3 lander module successfully landed on the moon’s South Pole, making it the first country to have achieved the historic feat and bringing to an end the disappointment over the crash landing of the Chandrayaan-2, four years ago.
Officials at India’s space agency, ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru broke into applause after the Vikram began its powered vertical descent towards its landing site.
The countdown of the Vikram hovered at 150 meters, then 130 meters, and 50 meters, and we celebrated as approached the moon’s service before finally touching down on the lunar surface. As the Vikram lander carrying the Pragyaan rover in its belly touched down on the lunar surface, it marked a giant leap in
India’s spacefaring journey provides a well-deserved finale to ISRO’s long years of toil.
This makes India the fourth country “after the US, China, and Russia“ to have successfully landed on the moon’s surface, and it has earned a place in the record books as the first to touchdown on the south side of Earth’s only natural satellite. Billions of people across India and globally are closely monitoring the much-awaited event.
More so after Russia’s Luna 25 spacecraft crashed on Sunday after spinning out of control. In the run-up to the scheduled soft landing of Chandrayaan-3, people across the country prayed to God in all denominations of places of worship for a successful mission.
Special screenings of the soft landing were organized across the country, including in schools science centers, and public institutions. ISRO made the live actions available on the ISRO website, its YouTube channel, Facebook, and public broadcaster DD National TV.