Indian space program successfully lands on moon’s south pole

The Chandrayaan-3 space mission culminated with a moon lander slowly dropping down to the moon’s surface, where it landed. The south pole of the moon has never been explored. The World’s Marco Werman talks to Namrata Goswami, an expert on India’s space program and space policy, about how the mission played out.

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