The successful Chandrayaan-3 mission has opened up the potential to use the Moon as a take-off point for future planetary missions, and bolstered India’s credentials to participate in such futuristic explorations, veteran space scientist K Kasturirangan said on Thursday. Kasturirangan said the soft-landing and ability to maneouvre after touchdown to explore the neighbourhood and all that goes along with it including the understanding of the entire process have given the ISRO a “total capability”.
The latest lunar missions is “one of the very key milestones of ISRO’s journey in the last 50 years because for the first time you have comprehensively demonstrated the ability of the space programme of ISRO to land an object outside the earth, into another body of the solar system”, the former ISRO Chairman told PTI.
