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<\/div>\nWhen the Chandrayaan-1 was being assembled, APJ Abdul Kalam visited the ISRO office.(FILE)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Chandrayaan-3 is expected to make a soft landing on the Moon <\/a>today. The lander will touch down on the surface of the Moon at around 6:04 PM, said the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).<\/p>\n Chandrayaan-3 is the ISRO’s follow-up attempt after the Chandrayaan-2 mission faced challenges during its soft landing on the lunar surface in 2019 and was eventually deemed to have failed its core mission objectives. India’s first lunar mission was Chandrayaan-1, during which\u00a0the satellite made more than 3400 orbits around the moon and the mission was concluded when communication with the spacecraft was lost on August 29, 2009, according to ISRO.<\/p>\n When the Chandrayaan-1<\/a> was being assembled, APJ Abdul Kalam visited the ISRO office.<\/p>\n As per a report in The Indian Express<\/a>, the 11th President Of India back then asked the scientists about what evidence Chandrayaan-1 will exhibit to prove that it had been to the Moon.<\/p>\n When scientists revealed that it would have pictures of the Moon’s surface, the former President said that it wouldn’t be enough, the report added.\u00a0<\/p>\n APJ Abdul Kalam suggested that Chandrayaan-1 should carry an instrument that could be dropped on the Moon’s surface, the report added.<\/p>\n It was after this advice that the scientists at ISRO made design changes to Chandrayaan-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n Speaking to the reporters after seeing the first pictures of Earth taken by terrain mapping camera on board Chandrayaan-1, APJ Abdul Kalam<\/a> had said that he was extremely happy after seeing the images and \u201cevery Indian should be proud of it.\u201d<\/p>\n India’s third lunar mission was launched on July 14 by the LVM3 rocket from Andhra Pradesh’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre. With the involvement of almost 1,000 engineers and scientists, Chandrayaan-3<\/a> has been in the making for four years, ISRO Chairman S Somanath revealed.<\/p>\n ISRO has earlier informed that the propulsion module will continue to orbit the moon, even after the lander makes the soft landing on the Moon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n