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Isro chairman S Somanath personally received PM Modi, who patted his back and hugged him for the successful culmination of the daunting lunar landing mission. The Prime Minister turned emotional during his interaction with the Isro scientists as he went on to heap praises on the Chandrayaan-3 team for their dedication and efforts.
The Prime Minister announced that the point where Chandrayaan-3’s moon lander landed, will be known as ‘Shiv Shakti’ and August 23 will be celebrated as ‘National Space Day’.
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Watch: Salute for your courage and hard work, PM gets emotional while addressing ISRO scientists
“Today, I am feeling a different level of happiness, such occasions are very rare. This time, I was so restless. I was in South Africa but my mind was with you. I wanted to meet you as soon as possible and I salute you, I salute your efforts. You took Make in India to the Moon,” PM Modi said while addressing the Isro scientists.
“The height to which you have taken the country is not an ordinary height, not an ordinary success. India is on the moon. We have our national pride placed on the moon. We went where no one had gone. We did what no one has ever done before,” he added.
The Prime Minister further announced that the point on the Moon where Chandrayaan-2 left its imprints in 2019 will be called ‘Tiranga’. PM Modi had flown down to Bengaluru on the night of September 6, 2019 to watch the planned touch down of Chandrayaan-2 mission’s ‘Vikram’ lander. But in the early hours of September seven, barely minutes before it was slated to land, ISRO lost contact with the craft, just 2.1 kms above the lunar surface.
“Today, from trade to technology, India is being counted among the countries standing in the first row. In the journey from ‘third row’ to ‘first row’, institutions like our ‘Isro’ has played a huge role,” PM Modi said.
India made history as the first country to land near the south pole of the Moon with its Chandrayaan-3 lander on August 23. This also makes it the first country to land on the Moon since China in 2020.
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