Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement that August 23, the day the ISRO successfully placed its lander on the moon's unexplored south face, will be celebrated every year as ’National Space Day'.
PM Modi also announced that the touchdown spot of the Vikram lander on the lunar surface would from now onwards be known as the ‘Shiv Shakti’ point while the Chandrayaan-2 Lunar landing point will be called the ‘Tiranga’ point.
Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K Sivan on Thursday said that the Chandrayaan 2 mission could not achieve success due to a small error that occured in the year 2019.
An official statement quoted the Dalai Lama as saying, "The successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 is a tribute to the people of India who have devoted their attention to scientific development since ancient times."
As India successfully placed the ‘Vikram’ lander on the moon’s south pole on Wednesday, greetings poured from every corner of the world. Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit congratulated the ISRO team and said ‘It was like a festival’.
Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi has expressed her joy at ISRO creating history with soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on moon and said “it is a matter of great pride and excitement to all Indians, particularly the younger generation”.
As india created history by landing Chandrayaan-3 on the moon’s lunar south pole, on Wednesday, Bharatiya Janata Party National General Secretary Tarun Chugh congratulated the ISRO team and scientists.
The lessons learned from the failure of Chandrayaan-2 contributed to the success of India's third lunar mission, former space scientist with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) scientist, Nambi Narayanan, said after successful touchdown of the 'Vikram' lander on the lunar South
After a historic soft landing by the Chandrayaan-3 on the southern polar region of the Moon, the Indian diaspora at Times Square in New York, US was seen celebrating the moment.