Scientists are happy that India has landed on the Moon
ISRO Chairman K Sivan said that the Chandrayaan-3 landing gave him “confidence in setting up missions to the Moon, Mars, Venus, and even asteroids.” He added, “For example, if the spacecraft lands in a crater, on a slope, or the leg of the lander catches on a boulder, the mission could be compromised.”
India is the first nation to land a space craft near the moon’s south pole
Russia’s Luna 25 mission crashed into the Moon just before it was going to attempt to land at the southern pole, just days before several missions are headed there in the coming years. This would have been the first Russian landing on the moon in 47 years. The landing “gives confidence to configure missions to go to the Moon, Mars, Venus, maybe even asteroids”, ISRO Chairman S Madhavan Nair said.