India Launches Moon Mission

Today India launched its first moon mission.  The lunar orbiter named Chandrayaan-1, which is Sanskrit for “Moon Craft” was launched from the Sriharikota space center in southern India.  Chandrayaan-1 will join the Japanese lunar orbiter Kaguya launched in October 2007 and the Chinese orbiter Chang’e-1.

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Kevin Knuth
Albany NY

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This post was written by drknuth on October 21, 2008

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