Chandrayaan-3 lands on Moon: How world media reacted to India's historic feat
The New York Times gave due coverage to the landing of Chandrayaan-3 on moon and carried out couple of article on its website's homepage titled ‘‘India Is on the Moon’: Lander’s Success Moves Nation to Next Space Chapter’ and ‘What’s next for India in space exploration?’. The publication also did a live blog on the event.
Another US publication Washington Post covered the event with a headline ‘India lands a spacecraft softly on the moon’s surface’. Another prominent media house , the BBC of United Kingdom covered the event live and wrote," Chandrayaan-3: India makes historic landing near Moon's south pole". The successful landing on the moon's south pole was also covered by many publication in European countries like Germany and also found prominence in neighbouring Pakistan as well. Popular publications from Pakistan like DAWN and GEO NEWS also gave prominence to the story with headlines like ‘India becomes first nation to land spacecraft near Moon’s south pole’ and 'India's Chandrayaan-3 finally lands on moon's south pole'.
The South China Morning Post headline the event as ‘Victory cry’: India lands spacecraft on moon, first to reach lunar south pole. 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 communication link was established between the lander and the space agency's Mission Operations
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