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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 with painted faces surround a replica of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft in Chennai on August 22, 2023. (Credit: AFP)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision
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BENGALURU - 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