Apollo program was a brainchild of President Kennedy’s regime, having faced moments of losing out to the then competitor, USSR on both the accounts of 1st artificial satellite (Sputnik) to leave earth and also to place the human into the space (Yuri Gagarin). Americans gave their best efforts in placing the 1st human on the […]Read More...
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Chandrayaan, series of Indian lunar space probes. Chandrayaan-1 (chandrayaan is Hindi for “moon craft”) was the first lunar space probe of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and found water on the Moon. It mapped the Moon in infrared, visible, and X-ray light from lunar orbit and used reflected radiation to prospect for various elements, minerals, and ice. It operated in 2008–09. Chandrayaan-2, which launched in 2019, was designed to be ISRO’s first lunar lander.Read More...