India is striving to make lunar history by landing the Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon’s south pole. News of Russia’s crash on Sunday has been nerving, and an inspiration at the same time as Indian space officials tried to downplay competition with the Russians. Russia’s Luna-25 crashed from orbit.  If India succeeds, the Indian nascent space industry would be bolstered. Under …

The successful launch of the Chandrayaan-3 mission on Friday marked a huge accomplishment for India’s space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The LVM3 rocket sent the spacecraft into orbit and put it on a course for a planned landing on the lunar south pole from India’s primary spaceport in Andhra Pradesh. This feat will propel India into the …