India Nails Landing On Lunar South Pole

Chandrayaan touchdown
Credit: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP via Getty Images
India made history on Aug. 23 by becoming the first country to land a spacecraft near the lunar south pole and just the fourth to achieve a successful touchdown on the surface of the Moon. The Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) 6.1 billion rupee ($73 million) Chandrayaan-3, the country’s...

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