‘India, I reached my destination’: Chandrayaan-3 on Moon
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) achieved a historic milestone on August 23 with soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the moon's surface at 6:04 pm
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ISRO took to X (formerly Twitter) to congratulate the nation on Chandrayaan-3's soft-landing
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected with ISRO from Johannesburg, South Africa to witness the monumental moment
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PM Modi congratulated the nation and said, "It is a historic day for India's space sector"
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Ahead of the landing, the lander module was brought down from 30km to 7.4km in the first phase
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Entering the third phase, the lander followed the projected graph perfectly
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After hovering on the moon surface, the Vikram lander achieved nearly zero velocity and landed on the moon
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India became the fourth country after the United States, Russia and China to land successfully on the lunar surface
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India became the first country to successfully land on the moon's south pole
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The Chandrayaan-3 mission aims to conduct lunar exploration by studying the moon's surface with a rover
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The Vikram lander will deploy the rover Pragyan which will carry out in-situ chemical analysis of the lunar surface