Chandrayaan-3’s successful soft landing headlines in major international publications
Chandrayaan-3’s successful soft landing headlines in major international publications
The successful touch down of Chandrayaan-3 mission’s lander on Moon’s surface has got the world talking about the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The major stride by the space agency positioned India as the fourth nation to successfully carry out a soft landing on Moon and a first to land on the lunar south pole.
ISRO employees watch the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the surface of the moon at ISRO’s Telemetry,(PTI)
ISRO headlines in all major international news sites across the globe for successful touch down of “Chandrayaan 3” on Moon
The New York Times BBC and The Guardian and Washington Post, heaped praises on ISRO in their headline.
UK-based publication BBC termed the achievement a ‘massive moment for India’ and ‘it bumps them up the space superpower list. Similarly, headline by The Guardian read ’the successful landing marks India’s emergence as a space power’. It wrote that for India, the successful landing marks its emergence as a space power as the government looks to spur investment in private space launches and related satellite-based businesses.
While the US-based publication CNN in its article wrote that this lunar mission ‘could cement India’s status as global superpower in space.
International news agency Associated Press termed the mission an ‘eagerness’ of the Narendra Modi government ‘to showcase technology and space powerhouse’.
Deutsche Welle, the German state-owned media, lauded India for being ‘able to compete at the international level and part of the big league even in its space program.
Japanese daily Nikkei appreciated the mission by terming it a ‘historic leap’ as it makes ‘the South Asian country only the fourth to successfully reach the lunar surface.
News Edit K.V.Raman
