India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission landed on the moon on Aug. 23!!
There was no guarantee that the lander would make it in one piece. A previous Indian vehicle crashed in 2019 as it headed to the lunar surface, as did spacecraft from Russia and a Japanese company this year.
A three-minute video released this week by the Indian space agency shows how the Vikram lander descended, hovered, searched for a suitable landing site and finally touched down.
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