Open this photo in gallery: The Chandrayaan-3 rover as it manoeuvred from the lunar lander to the surface of the Moon, in this handout screen grab taken and released by the Indian Space Research Organisation on Aug. 25.-/AFP/Getty Images
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Wednesday’s feat was historic as India became the first country to land an unmanned spacecraft on the moon’s south pole, and the fourth to land on the moon after the USA, China and the former USSR.

Chandrayaan-2 had successfully launched the orbiter in 2019 but scientists could only watch as the lander and rover modules crashed on the lunar surface months later.

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Summary Mission comes less than week after Russia’s Luna-25 mission failed

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India becomes fourth nation to successfully land spacecraft on the moon

Launch budget of about $74 million less than the cost to produce 2013 Hollywood space thriller ‘Gravity’

BENGALURU, Aug 23 (Reuters) – An Indian spacecraft landed on the rugged, unexplored south pole of the moon on Wednesday in a mission seen as crucial to lunar exploration and India’s standing as a space power, just days after a similar Russian lander crashed.

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VHP leader Vinod Bansal on Wednesday said that India is at the cusp of emerging as a superpower with Chandrayaan-3 all set to land on lunar surface today.

“I offered prayers for the soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 and fulfillment of the aspirations of our great scientists.

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