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India's historic cut-price Moon mission set for touchdown

Chandrayaan-3, which means "Mooncraft" in Sanskrit, is scheduled to touch down shortly after 6:00 pm India time (1230 GMT) near the little-explored lunar south pole.

Students showcase a model made with waste materials to represent 'Chandrayaan-3' mission at a school on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on August 21, 2023. AFP photos
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

India readied on Wednesday to become the first nation to land a spacecraft on the Moon's south pole, days after a Russian probe crashed in the same region.

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