https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-48605310
India's space agency has unveiled its spacecraft that it plans to launch next month and hopes to land on the Moon in early September.
If successful, India will be the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, following the US, the former Soviet Union and China.
Chandrayaan-2 will be the country's second lunar mission.
India's first mission, Chandrayaan-1 which launched in 2008, was an orbiter and did not land on the Moon's surface.
This mission will focus on the lunar's surface and gather data on water, minerals and rock formations.
While I have to question the wisdom of the country dedicating resources to things like this while so many of their people are in poverty, I'm sure the scientists themselves have worked tirelessly on this for the fast few years, and I'd like to see their work being rewarded.
Good luck to them !
India's space agency has unveiled its spacecraft that it plans to launch next month and hopes to land on the Moon in early September.
If successful, India will be the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, following the US, the former Soviet Union and China.
Chandrayaan-2 will be the country's second lunar mission.
India's first mission, Chandrayaan-1 which launched in 2008, was an orbiter and did not land on the Moon's surface.
This mission will focus on the lunar's surface and gather data on water, minerals and rock formations.
While I have to question the wisdom of the country dedicating resources to things like this while so many of their people are in poverty, I'm sure the scientists themselves have worked tirelessly on this for the fast few years, and I'd like to see their work being rewarded.
Good luck to them !
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