Space is hard, as the saying goes.
As humans have endeavored to launch themselves and their machines beyond Earth, that maxim has been proven again and again. Recent attempts to touch down on the moon — a feat first accomplished nearly 60 years ago by the former Soviet Union’s robotic Luna-9 probe — have been particularly fraught with failure.
But on August 23, an Indian spacecraft, for the first time, successfully landed on the surface of the moon.
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