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India's space programme has successfully landed a spaceship on the moon.

On 23rd August 2023, the world's biggest population became the fourth to make a moon landing.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi feels inspired by the scientists' achievement.

The crewless spaceship, Chandrayaan-3, meaning "mooncraft" in the Sanskrit language, made its landing at 12.34 GMT.

This has come a few days after a Russian spaceship failed to land in the same area and four years since India's failed attempt.

P Veeramuthuvel leads the Chandrayaan-3 project.

India's mooncraft has weaker engines than US Apollo engines from the 1960s and 70s.

In order to pick up speed, Chandrayaan-3 had to make several orbits around the Earth before it headed off for its month long journey to the moon.

On board was a solar powered robot called Vikram, which means "Valour".

Vikram is responsible for capturing photos of the moon's south pole surface and sending them back to Earth over a two month period.

The mission cost $72.6 million, which is significantly less than what other countries have spent on their missions.

India's celebrating the historic achievement but hopes the next moon mission will have a crew on board.

Sreedhara Somanath's the chair of the Indian Space Research Organisation.

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