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India P.M. Calls Safe Landing of Lunar Probe ‘Dawn of a New Era’
Space workers in India celebrated Wednesday’s landing of the nation’s Chandrayaan-3 probe, making it the fourth nation to safely land a spacecraft on the Moon, and had their efforts lauded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “India is on the Moon,” Modi boomed in a broadcast to the India’s 1.4 billion residents. The landing came as Modi was on a trip to South Africa, touting his nation as a model for growth at an economic conference also involving Brazil, Russia and China.
Read MoreAs Russia, India Reach for Moon, NASA Supporters Work to Stop Budget Cuts
As India and Russia race to land spacecraft on the Moon’s south pole, America’s space agency is staring down proposed budget cuts that could threaten its ambitions to return astronauts to the lunar surface.
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