In this rush for the lunar south pole, India's space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is scheduled to make its new landing attempt on Wednesday.
India, Russia, and Israel have all tried and failedRussia is the latest nation to fumble a lunar south-pole landing.
If first you don't succeed try, try, againThe landing attempt scheduled for Wednesday will be India's second try.
The new Vikram lander will be on its own.
So it's the hardest of the hard," said Braun, who has worked on landing and descent teams for multiple NASA missions to Mars.
Persons:
Luna, India's, Robert Braun, Rajanish, Vikram, Kailasavadivoo Sivan, Aijaz, Braun, I'm, " Braun
Organizations:
Service, Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, Space Exploration, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, India's Bharatiya Janata Party, AP, Space Research Organization, NASA
Locations:
Wall, Silicon, India, Mars, Russia, Israel, Mumbai, Bangalore, Mars . India