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In a giant leap for its space program, India's Moon mission Chandrayaan-3 touched down on the lunar south pole at 6.04 pm on Wednesday, propelling the country to an exclusive club of four and making it the first country to land on the uncharted surface.
Updated : Aug 24, 2023, 10:07 AM IST | Edited by : Riddhima Kanetkar
MS Dhoni is one of the most popular cricketers and has made India proud by dawning its jersey for many years. It is no secret that MS Dhoni shares immense love for India and is a patriot in every sense of the word. Now, a video is going viral on social media which saw MS Dhoni celebrating Chandrayaan 3’s successful landing on the Moon on Wednesday.
In the video, MS Dhoni could be seen watching the landing live and clapping for this momentous achievement by ISRO and India.
Here's the video
For the unversed, India reached, on Wednesday, where no nation has gone before.
In a giant leap for its space program, India's Moon mission Chandrayaan-3 touched down on the lunar south pole at 6.04 pm on Wednesday, propelling the country to an exclusive club of four and making it the first country to land on the uncharted surface.
Taking a billion dreams to the Moon in India's second attempt in four years, Chandrayaan-3's four-legged lander Vikram with the 26-kg rover Pragyan in its belly, made the soft landing near the south polar region of the Moon at 6.04 pm successfully negotiating what ISRO scientists described as the "20 minutes of terror" during the crucial powered descent initiated at 5.44 pm.
Shortly after the landing, the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) said on Wednesday night that a communication link was established between the lander and the space agency's Mission Operations Complex (MOX) in Bengaluru.