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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicMoon mission

Topic: Moon mission

‘Moon germs’ quarantine, bags of poop left behind & other fun facts about 1st moon landing

It's been 55 yrs since humankind made it to Moon on 21 July, 1969. While the event is well-documented, few know Moon has a burnt cookie smell or that mission was close to being aborted.

India’s first space station and human mission to Moon: what ISRO is planning after Gaganyaan

New Delhi: India is preparing to firm up its presence in space. After launching the Gaganyaan mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation plans to...

First private moon lander launched, half a century after Apollo

Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines's Nova-C lander, dubbed Odysseus, lifted off shortly after 1 a.m. EST.

Setback for US moon mission as Peregrine lander suffers propulsion issue, fuel leak day after take-off

The lander, the first one made in US since Project Apollo, was scheduled to land on moon 23 February. It is reportedly carrying DNA of John F. Kennedy, a piece of Mt Everest etc.

Sun is coming up over Moon’s Shiva Shakti point, it’s time for Vikram & Pragyan to wake up

ISRO will announce Friday if communication with Chandrayaan-3 mission's Vikram lander & Pragyan rover — currently in sleep mode — has been established & if they'll function again.

NASA images show Russia’s failed Luna-25 mission left 10m-wide crater on moon

Russia said a special interdepartmental commission had been formed to probe the loss of Luna-25 craft. Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years, failed on 19 August.

Chandrayaan-3: ChaSTE payload onboard Vikram lander records temperature variations of lunar surface

ISRO shares graph showing temperature variations of lunar surface in 1st such profile of lunar south pole that will help scientists understand thermal behaviour of Moon's surface.

Chandrayaan-3 lander Vikram shares video of Pragyan as rover rolls out on moon’s surface

In a historic first, India became the first country to successfully touch down on the moon’s south pole on Wednesday.

Chandrayaan-3’s moon rover exits the spacecraft for lunar surface exploration

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The moon rover of India's Chandrayaan-3 exited the spacecraft on Thursday morning to begin its exploration of the lunar surface, the country's space agency said on messaging

‘Work of a generation of scientists,’ says ISRO chairman on successful Chandrayaan-3 landing

President Droupadi Murmu & PM Narendra Modi both congratulate the ISRO team. India becomes 4th country to soft land on Moon surface & 1st to land on its south pole.

On Camera

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.