#India in space

[evelynstarshine]

CHANDRAYAAN-3 JUST TOOK OFF SUCCESSFULLY INTO SPACE TO MAKE INDIA THE 4th COUNTRY TO LAND ON THE MOON AND THE FIRST LANDER TO DO SCIENCE RESEARCH ON THE SOUTH POLE REGION OF THE MOON

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Indian Black Narrowmouth Frog aka “Space Frog” (Melanobatrachus indicus), T - female, B - male, family Microhylidae, Kerala, in the Western Ghats of India

photograph by Sandeep Das

[mapsontheweb]

India successfully lands on the moon

Chandrayaan-3 makes India the fourth nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon, joining the Soviet Union, the United States and China.

[fansids]

On their way to go annoy Miguel <3

(Ft. Meows Morales, Guin Stacy, Rabbitr Prabhakar, Margo Kestrel, and Yotie Brown)

[keepingitneutral]

Gallery House,

Mithapukur More, Chinsurah-magrah City, Bengal State, India,

Courtesy: Abin Design Studio

[humanoidhistory]

Total eclipse of the Sun, observed from Pulgaon, India, January 22, 1898.

(ETH Library)

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what an amazing day to be Indian ❤️ Congratulations to the physicists, engineers, scientists and all staff involved, this is outstanding 🎉

[thequid]

Letssss gooooooo !!!!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

INDIA HAS DONE IT.👑😎

India became the first nation to successfully land a spacecraft near the south pole of the FRICKING MOOON!!!!!

🎉🎉🎉

🪩

India creates history and this calls for a celebration.

India is on da moon!!!!!

🎊🎊

🎆🎇🎇

[mindblowingscience]

India on Thursday morning successfully docked one satellite onto another, joining a small group of elite spacefaring nations to have carried out the complex technological feat in zero gravity. Only the United States, Russia and China have carried out space docking missions, which allow separate satellites to work as a team, coordinating their tasks and sharing resources that can’t be carried on one spacecraft. The Indian mission, dubbed Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX), lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in the country’s southern Andhra Pradesh state on December 30, carrying two satellites, called Chaser and Target.

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Thursday, August 24.

Chandrayaan-3.

India has become the first country to land at the lunar south pole, and we consider this very cool space news. Among the very coolest of space news, perhaps. And truth be told it is truly *monumental*. While many are discussing the usual geopolitical gossip that seemingly goes in tandem with such cool space news, the significance of the landing not for any one nation, but potentially for the human race, is huge. So today, to the nation of India, its brilliant scientists at Isro, and all those who worked towards #chandrayaan3, we salute your fine, very cool space work.

One of the mission's principal aims will be to search for water-based ice that, scientists believe, could support future human habitation on the Moon. However, we would ask you to spare a thought at this time for the plucky little rover, who will wizz (albeit slowly) around the Moon's south pole for one lunar day (around 14 Earth days.) Named Pragyan, which means “wisdom” in Sanskrit, the rover will analyze the elemental composition of the Moon’s surface, and assess the composition of elements like magnesium and aluminium in the lunar soil around the landing site. 

But we can't help but think of this cute little rover, its six wheels leaving imprints of Isro and India’s national emblem on the lunar surface, up there frightened, away from home, all alone :( 

[evelynstarshine]

guys guys guys guys guys

india just sent this robot into space

[arc-hus]

Saat Rasta, Mumbai - Studio Mumbai

[meerawrites]

We made it to the moon for cheaper than NASA or Russia, or any colonial power ever has! (very positive)

Take that Great Britain and screw you all colonizers and imperialism (extremely derogatory).

[jay-wasstuff]

I just woke up to Destiel News™ informing me of India becoming the first country to land on the lunar south pole of the moon with a budget lower than a goddamn hollywood film, like where else am I going to my news as clear cut and immediate as this? I love this app.

[somerabbitholes]

Naipaul first visited India in the 1960s, a journey that "broke his life into two" — the same decade as when he extensively travelled the postcolonial ‘Third World’. This is articles from those years. A clinical and moving bunch on the impossibility of decolonisation and the long shadow of empires; on his encounter with India in a decade of famine, war, drought, and reform; a fragmented country "without even an idea of a graded but linked society"; on the teeming mass of former ‘colonials’ who can’t help but seek out a metropolitan life.

Loved this to bits.