The Chandrayaan-3 mission has successfully landed on the Moon’s south pole

India achieving what Russia couldn't. Great job India!
- What do you mean couldn't? They landed as well. Just faster and less controlled...
  Good job India!
- Russia landed on the moon 18 successful times though?
  
  No. The Soviet Union did. With Ukrainian engineers.
  
  The last time being nearly 50 years ago. And this time they didn't even manage to get into orbit, landing is supposed to be the hard part.
- All the starving Indian children are going to be so happy foreigners have a slightly higher opinion of Modi now!
  https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00067-6/fulltext
  What's 20 years of starving children compared to being the 4th country to land on the moon after no one else tried for decades?
  
  He said India achieved it, not that Modi achieved it.
  
  Then why don't you help feed them instead of posting in a platform through a device that very likely is using tech that came from space research operations?
  
  Ah.. this person is a complete utter Indian/Modi hater. Read their comment history. I've replied to them in a previous comment related to India space techs. He kept throwing arguments that I believed in a (supposedly) Indian propaganda and Modi kept his people starving backed this same reference. When I see this post I wonder if they would be here throwing the same hatred. Lo and behold, who have I found.
  Edit. I've found their previous comment thread. Their comment began quite sound but getting ridiculous down the thread. According to them, It seemed no matter what, Indian space techs just an illusionary accomplishments where any other country can achieve (which is not true as my I put out a reply that my country can't, and likely so for many other countries) and India shouldn't invest in techs because their citizens are starving - which is ridiculous to me as we need to invest in knowledge to progress. Every country has to deal with countless domestic issues but that shouldn't stop them progressing technology wise.
  
  Just like Musk isn't responsible for the work the engineers at SpaceX have accomplished, Modi isn't responsible for the work the engineers in India have accomplished.

Awesome news! Go India! 🇮🇳
- Why is this awesome news?
  
  Humanity successfully landed another object safety on a celestial object hundreds of thousands of miles away from the Earth. Of course that's impressive.
  Plus, they succeeded where Russia failed, which is at least mildly amusing.
  
  Why isn't it awesome news? Humanity landed another thing on the moon.

Congrats to India!
- It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you let your people starve and allow brutal sectarian violence towards cultural minorities.
  
  But enough about the US.
  
  Every country sucks. People suck. You can’t get away from it. Enjoy the victories where you can find them.
  
  Found givesomefucks' alt account
  
  How did any of that help design, build, and land a craft on the Moon?
  
  Maybe not the time
  
  Yo they just landed on the moon who cares about the poor beggars starving, once we get to jupiter space scientists will unlock food pills to fill their stomach

This is the best summary I could come up with:
Three other nations — the US, China, and the former Soviet Union — have all previously achieved a soft landing near the Moon’s equator, a safer region with (comparatively) amiable temperatures and terrain and reliable sunlight to recharge solar-powered instruments.
By contrast, much of the Moon’s southern pole is littered with deep craters and basins that are permanently shrouded in darkness.
The extreme conditions in these “cold traps” make remote observation from Earth difficult and present problems for operating sensitive equipment in the region.
The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft took 22 days to enter the Moon’s orbit on August 5th, following its launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on July 14th.
On August 17th, the Vikram lander carrying Pragyan — a lunar ground rover — successfully separated from its propulsion module in preparation for today’s soft landing.
The mission marks India’s second attempt at a lunar landing after the Chandrayaan-2 lander crashed into the Moon’s surface back in 2019.
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All of the kids are holding up pictures of an american space shuttle that isn’t even designed to land on the moon. But its good that those kids have something to look up to.
- The space shuttle is very photogenic 🤷
  
  True, it was the sexiest spacecraft humanity has done so far. Now we only have flying space dicks, sometimes with some smaller space dicks attached to its sides. Quite poetic.
- At least they're not wearing NASA t-shirts.
  
  Isn’t that this cool and hip fashion brand?

Congratulations on all your hard work India. Ride the wave. It's a great accomplishment.

Welcome to the club, India!
My only note is that you might want to get a bit more creative when choosing a name (Chandrayaan means “moon craft” or “moon vehicle” in Sanskrit).
- So sounds like... a good name?
- I mean USA names it after moon god, Russia just calls it moon so its as creative as the rest
- It's really no less inventive than Apollo.

Congrats to India

Wow ! Killing it

So what has that slacker been doing since then? Has it quantified the amount of water (as ice) located in the fissures at the south pole?
Get busy little robot - we have no time for dallying.

Their CGI needs some work
- CGI was fine but it was annoying they didn't consistently broadcast the numbers and just switching to various individual views. At the time of touchdown they showed a barren CGI and modi on a 40% background. Could have atleast showed the three metrics at a corner.
  
  Agree 100% 👍 Modi ruined the final moments for me. Wish there was a separate stream with just the telemetry. But this telecast was way better than it used to be. Also noticed millions of people left the YouTube stream once Modi started speaking ¯(ツ)/¯
- Lol who gives a shit about CGI. It was basically for all regulars so that they can understand how the landing is happening in real time.
- Actually the fact that it's shitty helps with credibility because it doesn't enable dumbass Moon landing deniers

It's less impressive when you remember they're letting the majority of Indian children live with severe malnourishment to do this...
It's like NK bragging about their rockets.
When you don't take care of the necessities, it's easy to do other shit.
Like a person wearing flashy clothes, driving new cars, and living in a giant house. Then finding out their over leveraged and bankrupt.
Edit:
Downvoting won't feed the children Modi is sacrificing
The prevalence of Zero-Food in India marginally declined from 20.0% (95% CI: 19.3%–20.7%) in 1993 to 17.8% (95% CI: 17.5%–18.1%) in 2021. There were considerable differences in the trajectories of change in the prevalence of Zero-Food across states. Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, and Jammu and Kashmir experienced high increase in the prevalence of Zero-Food over this time period, while Nagaland, Odisha, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh witnessed a significant decline. In 2021, Uttar Pradesh (27.4%), Chhattisgarh (24.6%), Jharkhand (21%), Rajasthan (19.8%) and Assam (19.4%) were states with the highest prevalence of Zero-Food. As of 2021, the estimated number of Zero-Food children in India was 5,998,138, with the states of Uttar Pradesh (28.4%), Bihar (14.2%), Maharashtra (7.1%), Rajasthan (6.5%), and Madhya Pradesh (6%) accounting for nearly two-thirds of the total Zero-Food children in India. Zero-Food in 2021 was concerningly high among children aged 6–11 months (30.6%) and substantial even among children aged 18–23 months (8.5%). Overall, socioeconomically advantaged groups had lower prevalence of Zero-Food than disadvantaged groups.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00067-6/fulltext
- You're being downvoted because you've zero clues here and you just run your agenda of hatred. You just want to diminish a country's achievement by bringing in different stats. This is typical of country-hating citizens.
  As for how and what this achieves is ISRO is immensely profitable in bringing in foreign money to India. They do it by having cheapest and reliable spa e programs. They're uncontested in this area now and all space agencies including private ones like SpaceX pays ISRO for their satellite launches.
  In case you don't understand in your blind hatred, this pays for India's space program and bring in a lot nore money as well.
  As for the other countries trying, Russia just tried and failed, NASA has both manned and unmanned launches to moon planned. So saying other countries are not doing this is false.
  Comparing NK rocket launch to this clearly how out of reality you're.
  And finally, regarding your straw man argument of malnutrition, first of all it's exactly that - straw man argument or whataboutism which has nothing to do with this achievement.
  Secondly, while malnutrition is a big issue and must be addressed, ending space program will do jackshit.
  Even further, Chandrayaan 3 is not Modi's achievement anyway, so why bring Modi hate in India's success story?
  
  he's being downvoted also because he's literally spamming every single thread about the landing on every community and instance with same-text posts, only the usernames varies depending on instance.
- All the countries with space programs have people in some form of dire strait. Starving, homeless, lack of medical care… Are you saying achievements like this aren’t allowed to take place at all until every problem is taken care of? I can assure you that at no point in civilization has there been times where someone wasn’t in a bad spot while society moved forward. Yeah, India has some big problems, and huge wealth disparity is a problem that many places face alongside India, but you can’t shut down progress because all the other problems can’t be solved.
  
  By that logic we should clap everytime North Korea launches a rocket.
  And there's not really any "progress" here.
  Modi has publicly said he's doing all this space stuff not for technological/scientific advancement.
  It's a PR campaign to make foreigners think India is a world power. And to pay for it, he's letting the "lower caste" people go thru hell
  Honestly, I thought people wouldn't be dumb enough to fall for it. But I guess Modi was right, here you are defending him
- Nah, it's still very impressive. The two things aren't necessarily related and you've presented zero evidence that they are. The entire idea that India's options were "feed kids or go to space" is reductive to the point of absurdity. They could do both.
  In any case, exploring our solar system isn't a luxury akin to owning a sports car. It's science. It's pushing the boundaries of human knowledge. It is incredibly valuable in a way that's hard to quantify.
  And quite frankly, Modi had precious little to do with this. He's a politician and this happened while he was in power. That's it. It's not like he was in the control room giving directions or turning a screwdriver or something.
- India has a lot of problems, but investing in ISRO isn't one of them. Satellites help in weather forecasting, cyclone monitoring, navigation and planning. ISRO also makes money by launching foreign satellites.
- "Majority" of Indian children?
  
  Last released day was pre-covid and was in the high 40 percents...
  Do you think the last couple years with COVID and Modi re-priotizing space missions has helped them?
  Or do you think they got that last 3-5% to put them over 50%?
- Pasting my reply in a separate comment by OP here.
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  Ah.. this person is a complete utter Indian/Modi hater. Read their comment history. I've replied to them in a previous comment related to India space techs. He kept throwing arguments that I believed in a (supposedly) Indian propaganda and Modi kept his people starving backed this same reference. When I see this post I wonder if they would be here throwing the same hatred. Lo and behold, who have I found.
  Edit. I've found their previous comment thread. Their comment began quite sound but getting ridiculous down the thread. According to them, It seemed no matter what, Indian space techs just an illusionary accomplishments where any other country can achieve (which is not true as my I put out a reply that my country can't, and likely so for many other countries) and India shouldn't invest in techs because their citizens are starving - which is ridiculous to me as we need to invest in knowledge to progress. Every country has to deal with countless domestic issues but that shouldn't stop them progressing technology wise.