This is on point, I'm Megna Chakrabardi.

On August 23rd, 2023, India became the fourth ever country

to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon.

Currently, only two engines are now being fired.

And we are nearly at zero velocity, vertical, and horizontal.

We were hovering, and now we are approaching the Moon surface.

And when it touched down, the Chandrayan 3 lunar lander made history

as the first ever craft to land on the Moon's South Pole region.

Chandrayan 3's rover Pragyan spent two weeks exploring the Moon.

It beamed pictures back to Earth and tested the temperature and makeup of the lunar soil.

Then, researchers put the rover to sleep to try to protect it from the freezing lunar night.

They're still waiting to see if it will wake up.

We're in the midst of a burst of interest and renewed interest in lunar exploration.

In fact, there are more than 250 planned trips to the Moon in the coming decade,

according to a report from space industry research companies like NSR.

Just days before India's success, Russia tried to land its spacecraft Luna 25

near the Moon's South Pole, but Luna 25 crashed after losing communication with Earth.

China's working on a new Moon rover for 2026 and says it will get astronauts there by 2030.

And the US hopes to send humans back to the Moon on its Artemis 2 mission scheduled for late 2024.

And then, there are the private companies.

We partner with different companies who make lunar rovers, so if a customer needs mobility,

we can put their payloads on a rover and then deliver that rover to the Moon.

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