India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft becomes the first ever to land on the moon's south pole, just days after a Russian attempt ended in a crash. The region's shadowed craters are believed to contain water ice that could help make a permanent lunar base for humans a reality.
'Jubilation' in mission control after successful landing, who has been following this story, says it is a"proud moment" for India.
In a few hours, the spacecraft's lander will deploy a rover that will spend two weeks gathering rock samples, images, and data. He begins his speech by praising India:"This is the heartbeat of 1.4 billion people. This is the new India, the new beginning, the new thinking of the new efforts. He concludes:"This success belongs to all of humanity and it will help moon missions by other countries in the future."India's Chandrayaan-3 has made history by becoming the first spacecraft to successfully land on the moon's south pole.
Experts at mission control at Satish Dhawan Space Centre can only watch now, as the lander is programmed to handle the descent all by itself. Chandrayaan means"mooncraft" in Sanskrit, and sums up what the programme was all about - learning more about the moon. "This is one of the reasons the Apollo missions never went down to the south pole... it's very mountainous, there's craters and dips and it's going to be very hard to find a safe place to land," space journalist Kate Arkless Gray told Sky News.
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