Chandrayaan-3 is gritty India's fightback after failures and heartbreaks

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Narendra Modi was seen hugging and patting K Sivan, the former chief of Indian Space Research Organisation as the scientist could not hold back his tears after the space agency lost contact with Chandrayaan 2 lander ‘Vikram’ just when its descent to the Moon was initiated. The prime minister too was emotional. After ISRO lost contact with the lander, Vikram, video feed from the command centre showed fellow scientists consoling a distraught Sivan by patting him on his back.

However, what was taking birth amid the tears and pindrop silence in ISRO's controlling room was perhaps the determination to fight back and rise again. Chandrayaan-3 is thus the gritty India's fightback after failures and heartbreaks. Not only ISRO and the country's leaders, but citizens too will want a soft landing and propel India to a new zenith in the this field.

«Last time we could not do the landing mission (Chandrayaan-2) successfully. So, this time we are attempting (again). We have planned with all corrective measures,» Sivan said.

«Moon landing is not an easy job. It's a challenging job...(but) we are expecting that we will land successfully,» he added. Here is the timeline of the moon mission as undertaken by the Indian Space Research Organisation (compiled by AP)

October 22, 2008: Chandrayaan-1 takes off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. November 8, 2008: Chandrayaan-1 enters a Lunar Transfer Trajectory. November 14, 2008: The Moon impact probe ejects from Chandrayaan-1 and crashes near the lunar South Pole — confirming the presence of water molecules on Moon's surface.