Dr Jitendra Singh highlighted the historic landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon's South Pole, a feat that astonished the world and established India as a leader in space exploration.
In a bold move signalling a paradigm shift in its approach to space exploration, India has opened its doors wider to the global space industry.
The US space agency has pushed back its manned Artemis mission to the Moon to 2025 that will send the first woman and first person of colour on the lunar surface.
Hooghly-based girl Priyanka Mallick is making news again! She is all set to send her biography and designs to the moon.
After the failure of two moon missions, Chandrayaan-3, the third lunar exploration mission is ready to take off in fourth operational mission (M4) of LVM3 launcher. It will demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface.
Chandrayaan-3 is scheduled to launch to the moon from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on July 14.
Given the rich history of lunar expeditions, particularly the Apollo programme, which provided groundbreaking technologies for human landings, the ambitious goal of returning humans to the Moon appears to be within reach. The Apollo-11 mission marked a historic milestone in 1969 and the Apollo 17 concluded the series as the final human lunar mission in 1972. While the focus in recent years has been on robotic missions for scientific experiments, the excitement of landing and working on Moon adds a different dimension to it
Japanese lunar exploration company ispace has successfully launched a lander on lunar orbit.
The Crew-4 mission launched at 3:52 a.m. EDT on April 27 on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Less than 16 hours later, Dragon docked to the Harmony module's space-facing port.
