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"A glorious moment for all Indians when Chandrayaan landed on moon" says President Murmu on National Space Day
President Droupadi Murmu, on Friday visits an exhibition to showcase space technologies and achieve…
ANI
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Chandrayaan 3: Countdown starts for India's third moon mission
35:17 IST ahead of take-off on Friday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
ANI
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National Space Day: Here’s the beginner’s guide to astrophotography and sky watching in India
Ever wanted to capture the cosmos? There's no better time than India's first-ever National Space Da…
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Giant step for India: Country joins elite club as Chandrayaan-3 makes soft landing on Moon
India has scripted history as ISRO's ambitious third Moon mission Chandrayaan-3's Lander Module (LM…
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Why Russia and India both crashed near the moon's south pole before India nailed the first soft landing there
Moon landings are rapid, complex, uncertain events where mission operators have no ability to inter…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Space photos from 5 recent moon-landing missions show how tiny engineering errors can cause big problems, like crashing or landing sideways
Moon landings are so complex that even the tiniest mistakes have caused missions to crash or burn. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Chandrayaan-3 undergoes last Moon-bound maneouvre, prepares for propulsion and lander module seperation
India's ambitious third Moon mission's spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on Wednesday successfully underwent…
PTI
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Chandrayaan-3 mission: Only hours left for the lift-off
With only hours left for the lift-off, anticipation is building around the launch India's third lun…
ANI
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China's historic moon mission is just the start of its plans to dominate space
China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe successfully returned to Earth carrying the first-ever samples from …
Tom Porter
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Japan has landed a spacecraft on the moon for the first time, but the mission didn't go exactly according to plan
Japan successfully landed its SLIM spacecraft on the moon but the spacecraft is not generating sola…
Jessica Orwig
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Japan is close to becoming the 3rd nation to land on the moon in the 21st century. The US isn't one of them.
Japan's space agency just inserted its SLIM moon lander into lunar orbit, weeks away from a histori…
Jessica Orwig
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How India landed on the moon and flew to Mars at a fraction of the cost of NASA and Russia missions
India reached the moon's south polar region before anyone else, on a budget, by starting small and …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Maiya F…
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Russia dominated the first space race, but now it can't even land on the moon. Photos show the US and China are way ahead.
Russia's grand return to the moon ended with its robotic lander crashing and forming a crater. That…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The doomed US moon lander is on a collision course with Earth and will be destroyed to protect other satellites
Astrobotic's lander set off last week with hope of becoming the first US spacecraft to make it to t…
Marianne Guenot
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Here's what Chandrayaan 2 is looking for on the Moon
In a highly challenging space venture, The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is soft-landin…
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Everything you need to know about Vikram, Chandrayaan 2's lander, as it lands on the Moon
Chandrayaan 2, India's second mission to Moon, is all set to land tonight between 1:30 am and 2:30 …
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Up, close & personal images of the moon from Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander
Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander is about to undergo a crucial deboosting manoeuvre and descend to a s…
ANI
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India's moon lander separates from main Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft
Indian space agency on Thursday afternoon successfully detached the moon lander from the main space…