India has announced it will make another attempt to land on the moon, following a mission that ended in failure last year.
NASA announced that Vikram — the Chandrayaan-2 mission's lander — had a "hard landing," and its location is still unknown.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who championed the mission, later consoled the ISRO team in a televised address. "We will look back at the journey and effort with great satisfaction," Modi said. "The learnings from today will make us stronger and better. There will be a new dawn and a brighter tomorrow very soon."
The lunar landing attempts form part of India's big space ambitions. The country wants to become a major space player, and put Indian astronauts in space by 2022.its first human space flight mission, and had already selected four astronauts for extensive training.In 2014, India became the first Asian nation to reach Mars, when it put the Mangalyaan probe into orbit around the red planet. In 2017, India launched a record 104 satellites in one mission.
CNN last year. "I think it's important for the country to do these missions on a relatively low budget to provide inspirations and aspiration for the general public."
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