ISRO-NASA News / India's prestige increased in the world - Chandrayaan 3 team gets top US space sector award

ISRO-NASA News: India's space scientists are making waves all over the world. Indian scientists have done excellent work in the field of space and an example of this is the soft landing of Chandrayaan 3 on the south pole of the Moon. This work of India is being appreciated all over the world. In this sequence, India's Chandrayaan 3 mission team has now received the prestigious 2024 John L. 'Jack' Swigert Jr. Award for space exploration.

Space Foundation's top award

DC Manjunath, Consul General of India in Houston received the award on behalf of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) during the inaugural ceremony of the Annual Space Symposium in Colorado. It is a top award of the US-based Space Foundation.

'India an inspiration to the world'

As the first to land on the Moon's south pole, ISRO's mission Chandrayaan 3 expands humanity's space exploration aspirations to new areas for understanding and collaboration, the Space Foundation said in a press release. "India's leadership in space is an inspiration to the world," Space Foundation CEO Heather Pringle said in a statement when the award was announced in January. The level of exploration has been increased again. His remarkable moon landing is a model for us all. Congratulations and we can’t wait to see what you do next!”

India became the first country

In August last year, India had created history by successfully making a 'soft landing' on the south pole of the Moon under Mission Chandrayaan 3 and became the first country in the world to land on this region of the Moon. Before India, no country has set foot on the South Pole of the Moon. (Language)