The Moon's south pole region is home to some of the most extreme environments in the solar system: it's unimaginably cold, massively cratered
Chandrayaan-2 will approach Moon on August 20, 2019 and the spacecraft's liquid engine will be fired again to insert the spacecraft into a lunar orbit
Rocket lifted off at 2:43 p.m. IST on Monday, July 22, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, a week after earlier attempt on July 15 was aborted
Referring to the indigenous systems used in Chandrayaan-2, he said the mission is 'Indian at heart, Indian in spirit!'
Deorbiting manoeuvres involve the firing of the spacecraft's engines to slow down its pace and bring it closer to the Moon's surface
Chandrayaan-2 mission: Filling of Liquid Oxygen in cryogenic stage(C25) of GSLV MkIII-M1 Completed. Catch LIVE update's on India's mission to the moon
China, which didn't have a space exploration programme when Apollo 11 landed in the Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969, is planning a series of missions to match that achievement
Here's a brief timeline of the landmark moments of lunar exploration in modern times
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon
Conspiracy theories that claimed that the moon landing was faked and that it was all a Hollywood-like cinematic production shot on Earth have been doing the rounds for decades
Photographs of the first moon landing were nothing short of artistic masterpieces that redefined imagery with the picture of a footprint
On July 15, less than an hour before its 2:51 am scheduled take-off, the launch of Chandrayaan-2 had to be postponed due to a snag in its most powerful rocket
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People collected and shared prints of the Apollo 11 landing and moonwalk, which also became the basis for artist Andy Warhol's colored prints 'Moonwalk' and for MTV's logo in 1981
Armstrong insisted that he actually said, 'That's one small step for a man.' In fact, in the official transcript, Nasa transcribes the quote as 'that's one small step for (a) man'
A jacket Armstrong wore during the Apollo 11 mission and a moon rock are among the many artifacts
Take a look at India's moon mission journey from the launch of Chandrayaan-1 to Chandrayaan-2
The launch was scheduled to have taken place at 2.51 am from the second launchpad at Sriharikota's Satish Dhawan Space Centre
The mission director said it was not possible to carry out the launch within the timeframe; new schedule would be announced after investigation of the glitch, which should take at least 10 days
India will be the fourth nation apart from US, the former USSR and China to reach the moon.