Bengaluru/Hyderabad, Aug 26 (Hydnow): Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew down to Bengaluru today directly from the Greece capital of Athens to interact with ISRO scientists on the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission and announced the decision to name the place where lander ‘Vikram’ touched down on the lunar surface as ‘Shiva Shakti Point“.
Terming the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission as an ‘extraordinary moment’ in the history of India’s space program, he said the place where the Chandrayaan-2 lander crash-landed on the Moon’s surface in 2019 would be known as “Tiranga Point”.
August 23, the day the Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down on the lunar surface, would be celebrated as “National Space Day”, said the Prime Minister, who turned emotional while addressing the team ISRO at ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) here, as he lavishly praised them for their dedication and passion.
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ISRO Chairman S. Somanath briefed him about the Charayaan-3 mission. A large number of people, many of them holding aloft national flags, gathered outside the HAL Airport and Jalahalli Cross, which is close to ISTRAC, to greet the Prime Minister.
On Wednesday evening the lander Module of Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully touched down on the lunar surface. Modi had joined the ISRO team at Mission Operations Complex (MOX) at ISTRAC virtually and Johannesburg, where he was attending the 15th BRICS summit.
Modi had also flown down to Bengaluru on the night of September 6, 2019, to watch the planned touchdown of Chadrayaan-2 mission’s ‘Vikram” lander. But in the early hours of September seven, barely minutes before it was slated to land, ISRO lost contact with the craft, just 2.1 km above the lunar surface. (Hydnow)
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