BCCI took to X, previously often called Twitter, to share the video of gamers watching the stay proceedings on TV and cheering after Vikram Lander‘s profitable touchdown.
“Witnessing Historical past from Dublin! The second India’s Vikram Lander touched down efficiently on the Moon’s South Pole,” BCCI posted.
With this landing on moon in second try in 4 years, India has change into the fourth nation to grasp the know-how of soft-landing on the lunar floor after the US, China and the erstwhile Soviet Union.
Chandrayaan-Three is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 and its goals are to exhibit secure and soft-landing on the lunar floor, roving on the Moon, and to conduct in-situ scientific experiments.
Chandrayaan-2 had failed in its lunar section when its lander ‘Vikram’ crashed into the floor of the Moon minutes earlier than the landing following anomalies within the braking system within the lander whereas trying a touchdown on September 7, 2019. Chandrayaan’s maiden mission was in 2008.
