With the successful landing of the Lander Module of ISRO’s third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3, India has reached the Moon! It has also became the first country to land near the Moon’s south pole. The Lander Module (LM) of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3, launched on July 14, made a successfully landing on the Moon’s surface on August 23, making India only the fourth country after the erstwhile USSR, the U.S. and China to make a soft landing on the lunar surface. Congratulating the team of scientists at ISRO, PM Modi said, “India’s successful moon mission is not India’s alone…Our approach of one earth, one family one future is resonating across the globe…Moon mission is based on the same human centric approach. So, this success belongs to all of humanity.” Precisely at 6.03 p.m. the lander touched the lunar surface and there was euphoric celebrations at the Mission Operations Complex (MOX) at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking, and Command Network (ISTRAC), Bengaluru. Following this, the Lander successfully deployed the Rover which will carry out in-situ chemical analysis of the lunar surface during t
After Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the Moon’s surface, making India the first to land near the Moon’s South Pole, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the ISRO team.
“On the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3, I would like to congratulate team ISRO and every Indian. Many congratulations for making the country ‘Chandramauli’. This is new India whose arms extend from Mars to the Moon,” Singh said while talking to ANI.
He further said that ISRO scientists have told the world that ‘Chanda Mama’ is no longer far away from us.
“India has added a golden chapter in the history of space exploration with the landing of Vikram Lander on the south pole of the Moon,” he added.
Pragyan is equipped with a variety of scientific instruments, including a spectrometer, a camera, and a magnetometer. It will spend the next few months exploring the lunar surface, looking for signs of water ice and other resources.
The Chandrayaan-3 mission is a major achievement for India’s space program. It demonstrates the country’s growing capabilities in space exploration and its commitment to scientific research.
The families of two ISRO scientists from Assam were ‘over the moon’ over the successful soft-landing of Chandrayaan-3 rover on the lunar surface.
The anxious family members of scientists Nidhi Sharma and Chayan Dutta of Tinsukia and Lakhimpur towns respectively cried tears of joy as the touchdown happened.
Both Sharma and Dutta were members of Chandrayaan 2 and 3 missions and were involved in the Landing Control Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) at Sriharikota.
‘’Baba, we did it’‘ were the first words from Nidhi Sharma when she called up her father-in-law Deepak Dev and spoke to him for less than a minute.
‘’We were very tense and apprehensive as Chandrayaan-2 had failed in the last few seconds. She had called us then and expressed her disappointment. With the success of Chandrayaan-3, we are literally feeling ‘over the moon’ and I have no words to express our joy,” Dev told PTI.
P. Palanivel, father of Chandrayaan-3 project director P Veeramuthuvel, on Wednesday celebrated the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 lander module on the moon’s South Pole and said that he is very happy and his son worked hard.
P Veeramuthuvel’s father watched Chandrayaan-3’s mission live feed from his Vilupuram home and cheered for the ISRO scientists for the successful landing on the Moon.
“Today Chandrayaan-3 very successfully landed. So this happiness goes to each and every person in India as well as Tamil Nadu. So I am very very happy. My son worked hard. As a father, I am sharing the happiness with you. I am very happy,” Chandrayaan-3 project director P Veeramuthuvel’s father told ANI.
