People in New Delhi, India, cheer as the Vikram lander touches down Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
IN AUGUST, India achieved what only the US, the USSR and China had done before and successfully landed a craft on the moon.
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s Vikram lander and Pragyan rover carried out a string of scientific experiments that will shed light on the composition of the moon’s surface, and the former performed a short take-off and repositioning to give engineers insight for future missions.…
