India successfully launches unmanned moon lander – landing 23/24 August 2023
On the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s epochal album “Dark Side of the Moon” India joins the US, China and the Soviet Union in attempting a soft landing on the moon.
50 years, wow. I had the album – along with most of the rest of the planet! Those were the days when more than a few of the songs actually had some sort of meaning – even if it was acid induced! Haha.
A tribute - Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon - YouTube
Back to the launch.
From here:
Chandrayaan-3: India's historic Moon mission lifts off successfully - BBC News
“India has launched its third Moon mission, aiming to be the first to land near its little-explored south pole.
The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft with an orbiter, lander and a rover lifted off at 14:35 on Friday (09:05 GMT) from Srihari Kota space centre.
The lander is due to reach the Moon on 23-24 August.”
“It comes 13 years after the country's first Moon mission in 2008, which carried out "the first and most detailed search for water on the lunar surface and established the Moon has an atmosphere during daytime", said Mylswamy Annadurai, project director of Chandrayaan-1.”
“Chandrayaan-2 - which also comprised an orbiter, a lander and a rover - was launched in July 2019 .. but the lander-rover failed to make a soft landing and crashed during touchdown.”
“Chandrayaan-3, which weighs 3,900kg and cost 6.1bn rupees ($75m; £58m), has the "same goals" as its predecessor - to ensure a soft-landing on the Moon's surface, he added.”
Out of interest, check out how much the cost of space travel has come down with advances in technology.
NASA: Cost of Apollo missions 1968-1972 | Statista
“Apollo 11, the first mission to successfully land man on the moon, cost approximately 355 million dollars, and the final mission, Apollo 17, cost approximately 450 million dollars.”
Maybe not apples and apples for a cost comparison.
Onwards
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Oh, good. Maybe they can go to one of the Apollo landing sites and check things out for us. I won't be holding my breath though. :-)
For those who have not yet escaped the CIA psyop that we sent men to the moon, the late, great Dave McGowan's essays over at the 'Center for an Informed America' are an absolute masterpiece on this subject. They are also extremely entertaining:
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie/
Bart Sibrel's, 'Moon Man: The True Story of a Filmmaker on the CIA Hit List: ' from 2021 is also exceptional:
https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Man-True-Story-Filmmaker/dp/1513686569/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3DTAFP9FZ9FE1&keywords=Moon+Man&qid=1689910198&s=books&sprefix=moon+man%2Cstripbooks%2C316&sr=1-1
To understand, why the CIA and the US Deep State perpetrated this extraordinary fraud on the American people and the world, Douglas Valentine's books, The CIA as Organized Crime (2017) and The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam (1990) provide the context and fascinating insights.
McGowan is the best place to start, IMHO.
It's interesting about these rocket launches Peter. I am doubtful about any of these rocket launches because the rocket always goes horizontal after a minute or so. See this video of the Chandrayaan-3 on BBC: rocket: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-66200743. Here is some video of a SpaceX launch where it looks like a mouse was on the engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IWQfy2HFm0. And this Atlas V rocket launch goes more horizontal (even with the lean of the commercial airplane where the video was taken from) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwIYFPZMV28. I've seen this on several of the Apollo rocket launches that you can see on the NASA website.