An Indian spacecraft blazed its way to the far side of the moon Friday in a follow\u002Dup mission to its failed effort nearly four years.
A successful landing would make India the fourth country — after the United States, the Soviet Union, and China — to achieve the feat.
The $140-million mission in 2019 was intended to study permanently shadowed moon craters that are thought to contain water deposits and were confirmed by India’s Chandrayaan-1 mission in 2008. With nuclear-armed India emerging as the world’s fifth-largest economy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nationalist government is eager to show off the country’s prowess in security and technology.
“This is a very critical mission,” said Pallava Bagla, a science writer and co-author of books on India’s space exploration, adding that India will require soft landing technology if it wants to attempt more missions to the moon.Article content
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