India made history by becoming the first country to land a spacecraft near the south pole of the moon on Wednesday at 6.04pm.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft made a soft landing on the moon after an account of 39 days.

“India is on the moon,” stated the space agency’s chief S Somanath while announcing the success of the mission and about its incremental progress and low budget cost made in just 140 crores.

The spacecraft with an orbiter, lander and a rover was launched on July 14 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. It was expected to operate for two weeks and carry out a chemical analysis of the lunar surface. However before this, only three nations – the United States, the erstwhile Soviet Union and China have successfully landed spacecraft on the moon’s surface but India became the first to land on the south pole of the moon.

The highly anticipated moon landing on Wednesday was watched by over 7 crore people on YouTube and celebrations broke out across the country after its awaiting success.

At 8.17 pm, the Indian Space Research Organisation said that communication link was established between the lander and its Mission Operations Complex in Bengaluru. It also released several images of the moon from the Lander Horizontal Velocity Camera during the descent to the moon’s surface and also suggested that this success will add many strong and important informations to the scientists in the progress of science and technological field.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi waved the Indian flag as he watched the landing from South Africa, where he is attending a summit of BRICS nations. Indians are glorified with this ultimate historical success after the failure of Chandrayaan 2 in September 19, 2019.

“This is a moment to cherish forever and we are lucky to witness the new flight of new India” said Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation through video conference from Johannesburg.