NEW DELHI: India cricket legend Mahendra Singh Dhoni‘s daughter Ziva celebrated the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3‘s lunar module on the moon’s surface.
In a video shared by Dhoni‘s wife on her Instagram stories, Ziva can be seen cheering the historic moment.
In a video shared by Dhoni‘s wife on her Instagram stories, Ziva can be seen cheering the historic moment.
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India became the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon and first on its south pole.
Officials at India’s space agency ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru broke into applause after the Vikram began its powered vertical descent towards its landing site.
This makes India the fourth country – after US, China, and Russia – to have successfully landed on the moon’s surface, it has earned a place in record books as the first to touchdown on the south side of Earth’s only natural satellite.
The spacecraft was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota on July 14.