India will celebrate it’s first ever Space Day on August 23.
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The Union Government on Monday declared August 23 as “National Space Day” to celebrate the success of the Chandrayaan-3 Mission, which accomplished a safe and soft landing of the Vikram Lander and deployed the Pragyaan rover on the lunar surface near the South Pole
India will celebrate its first National Space Day on August 23, 2024. The On this day last year, Chandrayaan 3 accomplished the safe and soft landing of Vikram Lander on the lunar surface making India the fourth country to land on the moon and the first to land near the southern polar region of the moon.
The Union Government on Monday declared August 23 as “National Space Day” to celebrate the success of the Chandrayaan-3 Mission, which accomplished a safe and soft landing of the Vikram Lander and deployed the Pragyaan rover on the lunar surface near the South Pole.
This has been celebrated across the country and has set goal of engaging and inspiring the younger generation in the field of Space Science and Technology.
On 23rd August 2023, when Chandrayaan-3 lander made a successful soft landing on the moon, India became the 4th country in the world to achieve the feat and the 1st to land on the lunar South Pole. Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi announced that August 23rd will,…— Ministry of Education (@EduMinOfIndia) August 19, 2024
In order to honour this achievement, the Department of Fisheries (DoF), Government of India (GoI), organized a series of seminars and demonstrations, to create awareness about the Application of Space Technologies in the Fisheries Sector.
Earlier, the notification issued by the Department of Space said India became the first country to land near the South pole of the moon with the success of the Chandrayaan-3 Mission.
The notification said, “With the success of the Chandrayaan-3 Mission on August 23, 2023, with the landing of the Vikram lander and deployment of the Pragyaan Rover on the lunar surface, India joins an elite group of Space faring nations becoming the fourth country to land on the moon and the first nation to land near to South pole of the moon.”
It further read, “The outcome of this historic mission will benefit mankind in the years to come.”
