From TOI to Financial Express, Chandrayaan-3’s success story makes headlines everywhere

Aug 24, 2023

Mumbai, August 24 (ANI): India’s Chandrayaan-3 made the headlines in several Indian Newspapers after it made a successful landing on the South Pole of the moon on August 23. With this India has become the fourth country- after the US, China, and Russia – to have successfully landed on the moon’s surface, it has earned a place in record books as the first to touchdown on the south side of Earth’s only natural satellite. Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft put down the Vikram lander on the lunar surface, descending and tilted to a horizontal position ahead of landing. The spacecraft was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota on July 14. The Chandrayaan-3 mission is the follow-up to the Chandrayaan-2 mission of 2019 when the Vikram lander crashed into the lunar surface. The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 landed successfully after a 40-day journey starting from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.