​Chandrayaan-3: List of nations that have successfully soft-landed on the Moon​

​Chandrayaan-3: List of nations that have successfully soft-landed on the Moon​

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India joined an elite group of three nations to have sent a spacecraft on the Moon as Chandrayaan-3 landed a rover on the lunar surface to explore the uncharted territories near the south pole.

In This Pic : ​Chandrayaan-3, Moon, india

India's third lunar mission - Chandrayaan-3 - landed near the South Pole of the moon, a place where no spacecraft has travelled so far.

In This Pic : ​Chandrayaan-3, Moon, india

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The erstwhile Soviet Union, the US and China have successfully carried out soft landings on the moon and even getting back to earth samples of soil and rocks from the lunar surface.

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USSR succeeded in making a lunar impact on its sixth space flight. The Luna-2 mission of the Soviet Union crashed on the moon on September 14, 1959, making it the first human-made object to hit another celestial body.

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