India is now the first country to successfully land a craft on the moon's south pole, just days after Russia's own space agency failed to do so.
lauded the landing during a live stream of the event, saying it marked"the moment for new, developing India."
Indians celebrate the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3, or"moon craft" in Sanskrit, at the Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. "The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon," Roskosmos said in a statement.
The Russian program was the first to launch a satellite to orbit the Earth with Sputnik-1 in 1957, and again the first to launch a human being into orbit, with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961.
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