Chandrayaan, Aditya-L1, Gaganyaan: The year India reached the Moon – and aimed for the Sun
News of the day Dec 27, 2023 at 14:21
In India, 2023 will be remembered as the year we went to the Moon.
On 23 August, massive celebrations broke out across the country when Chandrayaan-3 touched down in the lunar south pole region – an area on the Moon’s surface that no-one had reached before.
With this, India also joined an elite club of countries to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, after the US, the former Soviet Union and China.
In the following months, India continued its journey into space – by sending an observation mission to the Sun and then by carrying out a key test flight ahead of its planned mission to take astronauts into space in 2025.
We look back at an eventful year when India’s strides into space made global headlines.
