Chandrayaan 2
ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) has successfully launched their Chandrayaan-2 mission to the Moon. The mission, which includes an orbiter, a lander, and a rover, was launched into space on a GSLV Mk III rocket on July 22nd, 2019 . On September 7th , 2019 it will perform a soft-landing on the Moon. The primary objective of Chandrayaan-2 is to demonstrate the ability to soft-land on the lunar surface and operate a robotic rover on the surface. Insights about Chandrayaan 1: Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to Moon, was launched successfully on October 22, 2008 from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota. The spacecraft was orbiting around the Moon at a height of 100 km from the lunar surface for chemical, mineralogical and photo-geologic mapping of the Moon. First Indian man to land on moon : ISRO Chairman, K. Sivan, announced in January 2019 the creation of India's HumanSpace Flight Centre in Bangalore for training astronauts, also called vyomanauts (vyoma means 's...