Salute Your Efforts: PM Modi Meets The Key Team of Chandrayaan-3 at ISRO Centre in Bengaluru (Image:twitter.com/narendramodi)
On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the ISRO scientists on behalf of the success of Mission Chandrayaan-3. He visited the ISRO Command Centre in Bengaluru, Karnataka, and congratulated the whole team.
The Chandrayaan-3 lander module, India”s third lunar mission under the project Chandrayaan, was victoriously landed on the South Pole of the moon on Wednesday August 23 evening.
“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”, said the PM addressing the scientists.
“I wanted to meet you as soon as possible and salute you…salute your efforts…”, he added.
Interacting with our @isro scientists in Bengaluru. The success of Chandrayaan-3 mission is an extraordinary moment in the history of India”s space programme. https://t.co/PHUY3DQuzb
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 26, 2023
“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 were no one had gone. we did what no one has ever done before”, Mr Modi said in delight.
“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 ISRO has played a huge role”, PM added while appreciating the credible endeavour put by the ISRO scientist to make India a proud nation among the world.
Dhanyavaad, Honorable Prime Minister of India Shri @narendramodi ji. https://t.co/r66p5bPFN0
— ISRO (@isro) August 26, 2023
Mr Modi arrived at the ISRO Telemetry Tracking & Command Network Mission Control Complex Saturday morning. ISRO chief S Somanath personally received the Prime Minister, who patted his back and hugged him for directing the successful Indian lunar mission. Mr Somanath also briefed the PM on Chandrayaan-3 developments.
“Our Hon”ble PM has come to our control center today to congratulate each one of us… He was emotional about this historic event”, DD News quoted Mr Somanath.
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Prime Minister Modi also met the women scientists of ISRO who were involved in the Chandrayaan-3 mission. He lauded them saying that the “women scientists played a key role” in India”s maiden lunar landing mission.
“It is a cherishing moment for us to interact with the PM. He especially spoke to women scientists” ANI quoted Daffini Senior Scientist from the ISRO, who is also part of Chandrayaan-3.
#WATCH | Karnataka | “It is a cherishing moment for us to interact with the PM. He especially spoke to women scientists…,” says Daffini Senior Scientist from the U R Rao Satellite Centre working for the onboard reliability & quality assurance group of the systems reliability &… pic.twitter.com/dKYzD1pF1S
— ANI (@ANI) August 26, 2023
India is the first country to have achieved a historic remark of landing at the moon”s South Pole. The mission also bought an end the disappointment over the crash landing of the Chandrayaan-2, four years ago.
India became the fourth country – after the US, China, and Russia – to have successfully landed on the moon’s surface. The spacecraft was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota on July 14.
