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"India has become the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the
south pole of the moon, in a historic moment that drew cheers at watching
parties around the country.
“India is on the moon,” Sreedhara Panicker Somanath, the chair of the Indian
Space Research Organisation, said as the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft’s Vikram
lander touched down shortly after 6pm (1230 BST) near the little-explored lunar
south pole in a world first for any space programme.
The successful landing marks India’s emergence as a space power as the
government looks to spur investment in private space launches and related
satellite-based businesses.
People across the country were glued to television screens as the spacecraft
approached territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of
frozen water and precious elements."
Via Khurram Wadee, who wrote "Well done to ISRO and India"
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