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Nerves build as India moon mission prepares to make first successful south pole landing (www.theguardian.com)
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Chandrayaan-3 moves into prelanding orbit amid failure of Russian mission As it was announced that Russia’s first lunar mission in 47 years had crashed on to the moon, India’s own mission, the Chandrayaan-3 lander, moved into prelanding orbit. News on Sunday of the Russian failure was met with excitement and nervousness in India: excitement that India was now poised to win the race to become the first country to land a craft on the moon’s south pole; nervousness that its mission could also go horribly wrong at the last moment. Continue reading...

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