India's Moonshot: How Ambition, Engineering and Imagination Put India on the South Pole of the Moon. A Chapter Book for Smart Minds

On August 23, exactly at 12:33 P.M. UTC, India's Chandrayaan-3 mission's robotic lander, named Vikram, touched down on the surface of the moon. It was a moment of jubilation and celebration across India and around the world. For the first time, humans had landed a spacecraft on the Moon's unexplored South Pole.

Behind the success of this mission were the decades of hard work put in by the scientists and engineers of ISRO - the Indian Space Research Organization, in cooperation with other sp...