Chandrayaan-3: Historic India mission for moon’s south pole set for landing
“India reaches for the moon”, The Times of India front-page headline read on Wednesday, with the hoped fo
r lun\ar landing dominating
local news. “It’s D-Day for moon mission”, The Hindustan Times said. A previous Indian effort failed
in 2019, and the latest attempt comes just days aft
er Russia’s first moon mission i
n almost 50 years, destined for the same region, crashed on the lunar surface.