India's Chandrayaan-3 makes historic moon landing

India has become the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the south pole of the moon, in a moment that drew cheers at parties around the country.

The Chandrayaan-3, which means “mooncraft” in Sanskrit, put down its Vikram lander shortly after 6pm (1230 GMT) near the little-explored area in a world first for any space programme. People across the country were glued to television screens and said prayers as the spacecraft approached the surface.

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[CommissionP]

Countries landed on the Moon surface:

🇺🇸United States
🇷🇺USSR
🇨🇳China
🇮🇳India

Countries have landed on Moon south pole:

🇮🇳 India

India Makes History, Out of 195 countries, only India has successfully landed on the Moon's south pole

[gigachadsitler]

As a man from Europe, I think india is space superpower. Stronger than Russia.
Congratulations to india and ISRO.🎉

[unknown_]

Respect to the camera man who landed before Chandrayaan and captured this amazing footage of landing🗿

[paulmuriithi]

Wow just great. From All of Kenya and AFRICA we say congratulations to ISRO and India.

[Katylovecats]

Congratulations to India and all the Indian scientists! As an aspiring Theoretical Physicist, i must say it's not just a proud moment for India but for the whole humanity! Coming from Norway 🇳🇴🇮🇳

[SlumberBeark]

it's like someone just installed some old game from the mid-to-late 90s via five 3.5 floppy discs and played it on the projector and no one was the wiser.

[BlondeBigot]

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most

[MrMrvikas]

Congrats to TEAM ISRO and all fellow Indian 🇮🇳 🎉💐
Jai Hind 🇮🇳
From 🇦🇺

[phszdlo]

India is the first country to landed successfully south pole on the moon.

[ziondoor]

Bro! What in the Pac-Man is this are you kidding me with this 😂😂😂😂

[BHUVANAR.-vrwn]

Well, Huge Congratulations to ISRO Scientists and India for this remarkable and landmark achievement🫡🇮🇳. Proud Indian from Dubai, UAE 🇦🇪

[maddysyed]

Congratulations to Isro & whole India nation!
Such a proud moment for India & also for us.
From Pakistan 🇵🇰

[ladybabbleon]

This moon landing is as real as that Mexican alien.

[bastianmmk]

Congrats India 🇮🇳!! I'm so proud of your country from Thailand

[egonolsen]

What a fantastic success! Congratulations to India! Greetings from Germany

[mcdouche]

My favorite part is when the moon moved up 5 feet to meet the lander. In India the moon lands on your spacecraft.

[AAARREUUUGHHHH]

Congratulations to India's space organisation. After a few attempts, they've managed it. Hard work pays off! Love from Britain 🇬🇧🇮🇳

Edit: there was just one prior attempt.

[srathwa]

Well-done india
What a glorious landing
Love from Antarctica 🇦🇶

Why are you guys laughing? You can easily travel to Antarctica by ship, book your holiday package of Antarctica and visit my continent, I'm the owner of Antarctica, glory glory Antarctica!!

[jakecohen]

😂maybe they landed on the new version of space invaders 😂

[Suffer-grow]

That’s it??? i was waiting for Indian Tom&Jerry coming out of the spacecraft🤣