The lunar fascination of humans dates a long way back and ever since humankind has always tried various innovative ways to get closer to the moon. With many countries spending a significant amount of money for the research and development of space engineering, expedition to the moon has always been a key aspect in the research programmes. With nations competing, there will always be an element of pride associated with greater accomplishments in this area. It has always been a dream for the human beings to reach the moon and references can be seen in many areas of creativity like stories, songs, movies etc. The distant dream started to be less distant with the advent of technology and thanks to the victory hungry scientists across the globe.
23-08-23 will be special in the history of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) as Chandrayaan-3 makes a soft landing on the moon. There has been so much of hard work put in by the scientists and staff at ISRO to make this landing of Chandrayaan-3 a soft one, especially after the failure of Chandrayaan-2 in 2019. The learnings from the failure of Chandrayaan-2 seems to have been applied in a stupendous way and it is evident in the result of Chandrayaan-3. There has been so much of anticipation around the result of Chandrayaan-3 mission and every Indian now beams with pride for this accomplishment of India in the lunar space. This is new beginning to support to numerous moon missions involving human travel to moon as these kind of landers on the lunar space will help in the study and research required. India being only the fourth member in the club of countries exploring the lunar space, there certainly will be more competition coming up around this. However what makes India stand apart is the innovative minds at work that can pull these kind of missions at about a fraction of cost of what the other countries spend on missions like these. And hence these achievements become even more significant. The planning, dedication and perseverance of the ISRO team is commendable and this sure will inspire the young minds from the generations to come. Will it now make sense to say - "Dream of the moon and you can have it". Maybe it would make sense as time and again human brains have proven that anything is possible.
With great sense of gratitude, I thank the entire team behind Chandrayaan-3 and Congratulations India! Over the moon goes India, what next?
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Very nice 👍
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