Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew right down to Bengaluru on Saturday straight from the Greek capital of Athens to work together with ISRO scientists on the profitable Chandrayaan-3 mission and introduced the choice to call the place the place lander Vikram touched down on the lunar floor as “Shiva Shakti Point”.
Terming the success of Chandrayaan-3 mission as an ‘extraordinary second’ within the historical past of India’s India’s house programme, he mentioned the place the place the Chandrayaan-2 lander crash-landed on the Moon’s floor in 2019 could be often called “Tiranga Point”.
August 23, the day the Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down on the lunar floor, could be celebrated as National Space Day, mentioned the Prime Minister, who turned emotional whereas addressing the crew ISRO at ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) right here, as he lavishly praised them for his or her dedication and fervour .
ISRO Chairman S Somanath briefed him concerning the Chandrayaan-3 mission.
Numerous folks, a lot of them holding aloft nationwide flags, gathered outdoors the HAL Airport and Jalahalli Cross, which is near ISTRAC, to greet the Prime Minister.
On Wednesday night because the Lander Module of Chandrayaan-3 mission efficiently touched down on the lunar floor, Modi had joined the ISRO crew at Mission Operations Complex (MOX) at ISTRAC nearly from Johannesburg, the place he was attending the fifteenth BRICS summit.
Modi had additionally flown right down to Bengaluru on the night time of September 6, 2019 to look at the deliberate contact down of Chandrayaan-2 mission’s Vikram lander.
But within the early hours of September seven, barely minutes earlier than it was slated to land, ISRO misplaced contact with the craft, simply 2.1 kms above the lunar floor.
