National Space Day Being Celebrated Across The Country Today

The second National Space Day is being celebrated across the country today. 

The day commemorates the successful soft landing of the Chandrayaan-3 Mission’s Vikram Lander and the deployment of the Pragyan Rover on the Moon on 23rd of August 2023.

On this day in 2023, the Chandrayaan-3 mission accomplished the safe and soft landing of the Vikram Lander on the lunar



surface. 

With this, India became the fourth country to land on the moon and the first to land near the southern polar region of the moon. 

The soft landing was followed by a successful deployment of the Pragyaan Rover. The landing site was named Shiv Shakti Point. To honour this achievement, the Government of India officially declared August 23rd as “National Space Day.”