Daily Mail News Uk – Science
India has made history today as the first country to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon’s south pole – beating Russian to the record by a matter of days.
The Chandrayaan-3 lander, which has been in lunar orbit for over two weeks, touched down on the lunar south at 18:03 Indian Standard Time (13:33 BST) on Wednesday.
At around 13:20 BST, it had begun its descent, prompting nervous looks from Indian officials on Earth as it got closer and closer to the moon’s surface – watched by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi.