Indians will never forget August 23, 2023 as on this date our nation created history by becoming the first country to land on the South Pole of the lunar surface.
The ambitious third lunar mission of ISRO-- Chandrayaan-3 -- on Wednesday made a successful soft-landing on the moon, making India only the fourth country-- after US, China, and Russia-- to do so and the first to reach its uncharted south pole.
The union minister further hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said, “PM Modi brought in a new space policy, under which 55 spacecraft missions were launched in the last decade.”
After Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the Moon's surface, making India the first to land near the Moon's South Pole, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the ISRO team.
American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Wednesday congratulated India for landing Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon and for joining Russia, USA and China as the only countries to achieve this feat.
As India scripted history on Wednesday, with the Chandryaan-3 successfully performing a soft landing on the moon, the envoys of Israel, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Australia heaped congratulatory wishes
On Wednesday, Indians across the globe were glued to television screens to witness the landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the moon. Like others, Hrithik also watched the live telecast of India's historic moon mission.
Congratulating the team of ISRO for the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Wednesday said that where there is will and determination, even the moon is not too far.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Wednesday congratulated the scientists of ISRO for the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the South pole of the lunar surface.