Like any career, space is based on one's own successes as well as the failures of others. After the loss of control and accident of the Russian mission, India aspires this Wednesday to become the fourth country to reach the Moon and the first to reach its south pole. If everything goes as planned after separating last Thursday from the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, its Vikram probe will land on the lunar surface at six in the afternoon (two thirty in the afternoon, Spanish peninsular time). A 26 kilo vehicle will emerge from it, called Pragyaan, which will take images and samples for one lunar day (two Earth weeks) until it runs out of energy in its... See more
