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India makes history when Chandrayaan-3 successfully lands on the moon On August 23, 2023, India made history when its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft landed safely on the moon. The landing was the result of years of work by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), and it is a big step forward for India's space program. India's third journey to the moon is called Chandrayaan-3. The first one, Chandrayaan-1, was sent into space in 2008 and spent a year going around the moon. The second, called Chandrayaan-2, was launched in 2019 and was meant to land a lander and robot on the moon's surface. But the lander crashed as it got close to the surface, so the robot couldn't be sent out. Chandrayaan-3 was built to learn from Chandrayaan-2's mistakes and land gently on the moon. There is a lander, a rover, and an orbiter on the spaceship. The Vikram lander landed on the surface of the moon at 6:15 IST (12:45 GMT). The robot, which is called Pragyan, will be sent out from the la...