On to India’s next space chapter


People watching a live stream of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft’s landing on the moon at the auditorium of Gujarat Science City in Ahmedabad, India. — Reuters

TWO visitors from India – a lander named Vikram and a rover named Pragyan – landed in the southern polar region of the moon on Aug 23.

The two robots, from a mission named Chandrayaan-3, make India the first country to ever reach this part of the lunar surface in one piece – and only the fourth country ever to land on the moon.

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