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Global News Podcast

India makes historic Moon landing

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Scientists hope to deploy a rover on the lunar surface to send images and data back to Earth. Also: Zimbabweans vote in a crucial presidential election, and a rare baby giraffe is born with no spots.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:24.0

You're listening to the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:29.0

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We are recording this 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 23rd of August.

0:35.0

India becomes the first country to land a spacecraft on the South Pole of the Moon.

0:40.0

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0:46.0

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0:53.0

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0:56.0

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1:00.0

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1:04.0

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1:13.0

In space terms, its budget was relatively small at just $75 million.

1:19.0

But India's successful mission to the Moon is likely to have a big impact.

1:23.0

Currently only two engines are now being fired and we are nearly at zero velocity, vertical and horizontal.

1:33.0

We were hovering and now we are approaching the moon surface.

1:38.0

The moon surface.

1:46.0

We have a tube.

1:48.0

Soft landing on the moon. India is on the moon.

1:52.0

So after it's six week journey from Earth, the Chandrian 3 became the first craft to touch down at the lunar South Pole.

2:00.0

Making India only the fourth nation to achieve a soft landing on the Moon after the USSR, America and China.

2:07.0

The achievement is even more impressive given the high failure rate in recent missions including Russia's Lunar 25 which crashed on Sunday.

2:16.0

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed mission control via video link from a summit in South Africa.

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