Posted on Aug 8, 2023

Chandrayaan-3: Historic India Moon mission sends new photos of lunar surface

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India's space agency has released the first images of the Moon taken by the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, which entered lunar orbit on Saturday.

The images show craters on lunar surface getting larger and larger as the spacecraft draws closer.

Chandrayaan-3's lander and rover are due to reach the surface on 23 August.

If successful, India will be the first country to perform a controlled "soft landing" near the south pole.

It will also become only the fourth to achieve a soft landing on the Moon after the US, the former Soviet Union and China.

After the spacecraft orbited the Earth for about 10 days, it was sent into the translunar orbit last Tuesday and successfully injected into the lunar orbit on Saturday.

Chandrayaan-3: Historic India Moon mission sends new photos of lunar surface

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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter

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Interesting to see other countries engaged in Space exploration.

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We need to get back into the space race. we are lacking.

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We were doing great in Space and we had the shuttles. The shuttle program was dismantled in 2010/2011. And usually any time there is a cut to the budget, NASA is almost always on the list. There are some who what to protect NASA budget. https://rollcall.com/2023/05/05/space-agencys-gop-fans-make-their-case-to-shield-it-from-cuts/

Space agency's GOP fans make their case to shield it from cuts - Roll Call

As House Republicans sit down to write their fiscal 2024 spending bills, some appropriators are pushing to add NASA to the protected list.

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SFC Casey O'Mally

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MSgt (Join to see) But we are still doing space exploration. We have just moved on from the moon. The moon, for *us* is so last century. We have moved on to Mars and beyond.

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SFC Casey O'Mally - Before moving to Mars, having a colony or station on the Moon would provide us with the insight and enhance capabilities to settle on Mars.

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