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Aug 24, 2023

India Becomes Fourth Nation To Land On The Moon—And First To South Pole

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India has joined the U.S., China and the former USSR in successfully soft-landing a spacecraft on the surface of the moon. The uncrewed Chandrayaan-3 mission has also become the first to land close to the moon’s south pole.

About 15 minutes after initiating its Automatic Landing Sequence (ALS), Chandrayaan-3’s Lander Module (LM) touched down around 8:34 a.m. EDT. Images were streamed live on YouTube from the Indian Space Research Agency (ISRO) control room in Bengaluru, India.


India’s uncrewed Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully landed today close to the moon’s south pole. It joins an elite club of only four nations to soft-land on the moon.

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