India is all set to launch its Chandrayaan-3 mission on July 14 at 2:35 pm. To seek the blessing ahead day of the launch, a team of ISRO scientists on Thursday visited and offered prayers at Tirupathi Venkatachalapathy Temple in Andhra Pradesh with a miniature model of Chandrayaan-3.A team of ISRO scientists, including Scientific Secretary of ISRO Shanthanu Batwuadekar, visited the temple earlier on Thursday.#WATCH | Andhra Pradesh | India is all set to launch its 3rd moon mission Chandrayaan-3 tomorrow at 2:35 PM. I pray that everything goes well and it lands on the moon on August 23 onwards any day: S Somanath, ISRO Chief on the launch of Chandrayaan-3 pic.twitter.com/wMp7NIjifM— ANI (@ANI) July 13, 2023National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL) Director Amit Kumar Patra, Project Director of Chandrayaan-3, Veeramuthu Vel, Associate Project Director of Chandrayaan-3, Kalpana Kalahasti, and other senior ISRO scientists were also among the team seeking divine blessings at the temple ahead of the historic launch on Friday.The information came from ISRO a few days back with the announcement “Chandrayaan-3 will be launched on July 14, at 2:35 pm IST from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.”Notably, Chandrayaan-3 Indias third lunar exploration mission, will make India the fourth country to land its spacecraft on the moons surface and demonstrate its ability for safe and soft landing on the lunar surface.Ahead of the countdown for the launch, the official tweet came from ISRO, which reads, “Mission Readiness Review is completed. The board has authorised the launch. The countdown begins tomorrow. The launch can be viewed LIVE on http://isro.gov.in”LVM3 M4/Chandrayaan-3 Mission:Mission Readiness Review is completed.The board has authorised the launch.The countdown begins tomorrow.The launch can be viewed LIVE onhttps://t.co/5wOj8aimkHhttps://t.co/zugXQAY0c0https://t.co/u5b07tA9e5DD Nationalfrom 14:00 Hrs. IST…— ISRO (@isro) July 12, 2023It is to be noted here that this mission will be ISROs follow-up attempt after the Chandrayaan-2 mission faced challenges during its soft landing. ISRO lost contact with the lander when it was just a notch from the moons surface in 2019.
