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People in New Delhi, India, cheer as the Vikram lander touches down
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IN AUGUST, India achieved what only the US, the USSR and China had done before and successfully landed a craft on the moon.
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Why it’s a big deal that India beat Russia in the new race to the moon
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s Vikram lander and Pragyan rover carried out a string of scientific experiments that will shed light on the composition of the moon’s surface, and the former performed a short take-off and repositioning to give engineers insight for future missions.…
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