370 INDIA Chandrayaan-3: India is on the Moon as Vikram soft-lands, Pragyan to roll out in few hours

BENGALURU: Forty days after India embarked on a celestial odyssey, aiming to conquer Moon’s enigmatic embrace, Vikram, the Chandrayaan-3 soft-landed on Moon to propel India into an elite club of nations. It is now the first to land a probe in the polar region of the Moon and only the fourth country to land anywhere on the lunar surface. In the next few hours, Vikram’s mate, Pragyan is also expected to touchdown on the lunar surface.