‘You Are There, Safely And Proudly On The Moon’: Space Community Congratulates India On Chandrayaan-3’s Landing

Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander softly landed on the Moon at 6:04 pm IST on August 23, 2023. After this, praises poured in for ISRO from the international scientific community.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, and European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher are some of the eminent personalities from the space community who congratulated ISRO on the Chandrayaan-3 landing

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Chandrayaan-3 Soft Landing On Moon: After Chandrayaan-3’s historic soft landing on the Moon’s south pole, praises poured in for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) from the international scientific community. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, and European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher are some of the eminent personalities from the space community who congratulated ISRO on this historic achievement. 

Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander softly landed on the Moon at 6:04 pm IST on August 23, 2023.

Nelson congratulated India for becoming the fourth country in the world to successfully soft-land a spacecraft on the Moon. 

Congratulations @isro on your successful Chandrayaan-3 lunar South Pole landing! And congratulations to #India on being the 4th country to successfully soft-land a spacecraft on the Moon. We’re glad to be your partner on this mission! https://t.co/UJArS7gsTv

— Bill Nelson (@SenBillNelson) August 23, 2023

Writing that he is thoroughly impressed, Aschbacher said, “What a way to demonstrate new technologies AND achieve India’s first soft landing on another celestial body. Well done, I am thoroughly impressed.”

Incredible! Congratulations to @isro, #Chandrayaan_3, and to all the people of India!!

What a way to demonstrate new technologies AND achieve India’s first soft landing on another celestial body. Well done, I am thoroughly impressed.

And kudos once again to @esaoperations for… https://t.co/GT3kyWHP6L

— Josef Aschbacher (@AschbacherJosef) August 23, 2023

Congratulating ISRO and India, Hadfield said, “You are there, safely and proudly on the Moon!”

Congratulations ⁦@isro⁩ and all of India! You are there, safely and proudly on the Moon! pic.twitter.com/w3YCcVVDAj

— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) August 23, 2023

The UK Space Agency wrote on X “History made!”

History made! 🇮🇳🌖

Congratulations to @isro 👏#Chandrayaan3 https://t.co/6bPUfA3yXy

— UK Space Agency (@spacegovuk) August 23, 2023

Professor RC Kapoor, an Indian astronomer, said that Chandrayaan-3 is the “best moment” of his life.

#WATCH | "This is the best moment of my life and we can't express our excitement as it landed. This is the moment to congratulate ISRO, the whole nation and the entire world...This opens the floodgates to research and increase activity in the Southern part of the Moon. India is… pic.twitter.com/SUtVqoFz10

— ANI (@ANI) August 23, 2023

Former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayan, on whose life the Indian-language movie Rocketry is based, said: “What we have achieved is unbelievable”.

WATCH | India becomes the first country to land on the lunar south pole with Chandrayaan-3 mission

Former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayan says, " What we have achieved is unbelievable...Every failure of Chandrayaan-2 was addressed and rectified, and its failure was used in our… pic.twitter.com/oEM0pBEOby

— ANI (@ANI) August 23, 2023

All the phases of descent during the ‘15 minutes of terror’ were successfully completed. Chandrayaan-3 underwent initial preparation, velocity reduction, orientation change, attitude hold phase, fine braking, final descent, and touchdown. Powered descent began after the automatic landing sequence was initiated.

After the Vikram lander successfully landed on the lunar south pole, the sensors signalled the computer onboard the spacecraft. The Pragyan rover will be unfurled three-and-a-half hours after the lunar dust has settled down.

Chandrayaan-3 will operate on the Moon for about 14 Earth days.