Chandrayaan 3 Updates

India’s space programme about continuity, says Jairam Ramesh

20 Sep 2023

Rajya Sabha member Jairam Ramesh said India's space program has been about continuity since its inception in the 1960s, regardless of who was in power, and he blasted the Centre for failing to give "due credit" to previous governments. “The glorious space journey that the Leader of the House wants...

Chandrayaan-3: Wishes pour in after India’s historic landing on Moon

23 Aug 2023

India made history on Wednesday with the successful soft landing of its lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon's south pole area. With this accomplishment, India becomes the first country to land on the Moon's difficult south pole area. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced the landing, writing, "'India, I...

India is now on the moon, PM Modi praises Chandrayaan 3’s soft landing

23 Aug 2023

Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated India on Wednesday after Chandrayaan 3's Vikram lander safely landed on the Moon's South Pole. “This is historic movement and sounds the bugle for a developed India”, Prime Minister Modi, who witnessed the historic moment virtually from Johannesburg in South Africa, said in his address...

India makes history with successful landing of Chandrayaan 3 on the Moon’s south pole

23 Aug 2023

At 6.04 p.m. on Wednesday, India made history by landing the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the Moon's south pole, just days after a Russian probe, Luna-25, crashed in the same region. Chandrayaan-3, which means "Mooncraft" in Sanskrit, landed near the lunar south pole, which has yet to...