India’s first lunar landing is success
SPACE RACE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 15, 2008

NEW DELHI — The first lunar probe from India landed successfully on the moon Friday as part of a mission aimed at laying the groundwork for further Indian space expeditions, the Indian Space Research Organization said.



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Organization chairman G. Madhavan Nair said cameras on board have been transmitting images of the moon back to Indian space control.

The unmanned moon mission was launched Oct. 22. The box-shaped lunar probe carried a video imaging system, a radar altimeter and a mass spectrometer. To date, only the U.S., Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and China have sent missions to the moon.


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