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India Achieves Historic Moon Landing: Chandrayaan-3 Mission

A lander named Vikram and a rover named Pragyan — landed in the southern polar region of the moon on August 23. The Indian mission launched in July, taking a slower, fuel-conscious route toward the moon. Vikram out-endured its Russian counterpart, Luna-25, which launched 13 days ago for the moon. It was scheduled to land on Monday in the same general vicinity as the Indian craft but crashed on Saturday following an engine malfunction.

“We have achieved a soft landing on the moon,” S. Somanath, the director of the Indian Space Research Organization, said after a roar ripped across the ISRO compound just past 6 p.m. local time. “India is on the moon.”

The landing was seen by around 7 million viewers on the YouTube channel of the Indian Space Research Organization and many more people on Indian TV broadcasts. The Deep Space Network, a NASA network of large dish antennas, is assisting ISRO in communicating with the ground. Right now, it shows Chandrayaan-3 sending signals.

The Indian public already takes great pride in the accomplishments of the nation’s space program, which has orbited the moon and Mars and routinely launches satellites above the Earth with far fewer financial resources than other nations. But the achievement of Chandrayaan-3 may be even sweeter. That India managed to outdo a nation that put the first satellite, man, and woman in space is a measure of the country’s long embrace of the science and technology needed to support a space program. But the landing also comes at a particularly important moment in the South Asian giant’s rise.