The successful landing of the Chandrayaan-3 has drawn worldwide attention as India became the first nation to land a spacecraft near the largely unexplored lunar south pole. This is an incredible feat considering the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), who proved through it that it can comeback from setbacks and failures, take on tough challenges and come out on top.
With Chandrayaan-2 having failed in its mission four years ago, ISRO learnt the lessons of that failure and Chandrayaan-3 was built to be fail-safe for its mission on the moon. The success of the landing is particularly remarkable given the failure of Russian Luna-25 which was scheduled to land a couple of days before the Indian spacecraft.
The key to the success of India’s space programme, apart from sustained state support, is the quality and dedication of its engineers and scientists who helped make this difficult mission possible. Overall, the success of Chandrayaan-3 can be considered a turning point for India’s rise to space technology.
