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Readers have responded resoundingly to our invitation to congratulate the ISRO team for Chandrayaan-3s successful Moon landing.

On August 23, 2023, a day that will be enshrined in the memories of all Indians and India, as Bharat has accomplished a remarkable and glorious feat that

“Congratulations ISRO on your successful Chandrayaan-3 lunar South Pole landing!... We’re glad to be your partner on this mission,” NASA chief Bill Nelson said.

Since the landing of the then Soviet Union’s Luna 24 in 1976, only China has been able to land a spacecraft on the Moon — Chang’e 3 and Chang’e 4 in 2013 and 2018 respectively. India and Russia are both trying to make their first soft landing.

The Chandrayaan-3 missions lander is named after Vikram Sarabhai (1919–1971), who is widely regarded as the father of the Indian space programme.

Dr. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, a trailblazing visionary, is widely hailed as the father of the Indian space program and a relentless institution builder. 

Chandrayaan 3 is Indias ambitious moon mission, launched from the Earth on July 14. It is expected to land on the moon on August 23. | Latest News India

     by kavya dubey  it was on april 19, 1975, that india strode into the ‘space age’ with the successful launch of ‘aryabhata’, the first satellite, named in honour of the ancient mathematician a

The purview of the Indian space programme includes a gamut of specialised fields such as remote sensing, astronomy and astrophysics, atmospheric sciences, and space sciences in general.

ISRO is now clearly on a very different and ambitious course, which is also very challenging. This new course has its origins in the decision to go in for planetary exploration, beginning with the moon.