On Aug. 23, India won the cosmic competition, setting Chandrayaan-3 down gently in the polar dust at 8:34 AM ET. “We have achieved a soft landing on the moon,” announced S. Somanath, the chairman of ISRO—the Indian Space Research Organization, to a packed mission control. “India is on the moon!”
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00:00 And the lander module has begun its descent towards the landing site.
00:07 This is the landing site.
00:15 [Applause]
00:26 [Cheering]
00:44 Here from the Secretary Department of Space and Chairman ISRO, S. S. Somnath.
00:50 (applause)