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‘Part of big league’: Here's how foreign media featured Chandrayaan-3's success

Aug 24, 2023 04:53 AM IST

Chandrayaan-3's successful soft landing made headlines in major international publications, and they peg India as global superpower in space.

The successful touch down of Chandrayaan-3 mission's lander on Moon's surface has got the world talking about the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The major stride by the space agency positioned India as the fourth nation to successfully carry out a soft landing on Moon and a first to land on the lunar south pole.

ISRO employees watch the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the surface of the moon at ISRO's Telemetry,(PTI)
ISRO employees watch the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the surface of the moon at ISRO's Telemetry,(PTI)

From The New York Times to BBC and The Guardian to The Washington Post, ISRO made headlines in all major international news sites across the globe.

Also read: Chandrayaan 3 touches down on moon's South Pole. What happens now?

UK-based publication BBC called the achievement a ‘massive moment for India’ and ‘it bumps them up the space superpower list. Similarly, headline by The Guardian reads ’the successful landing marks its (India’s) emergence as a space power'. "For India, the successful landing marks its emergence as a space power as the government looks to spur investment in private space launches and related satellite-based businesses," it wrote.

US-based publication CNN wrote in its article that this lunar mission ‘could cement India’s status as global superpower in space'.

International news agency Associated Press termed the mission an ‘eagerness’ of the Narendra Modi government ‘to showcase technology and space powerhouse’.

Deutsche Welle, the German state-owned media, commended India for being ‘able to compete at the international level and part of the big league even in its space program’.

Coming to publications from Asia, Japanese daily Nikkei appreciated the mission by calling it a ‘historic leap’ as it makes ‘the South Asian country only the fourth to successfully reach the lunar surface’.

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