The Space Race Continues

by TFleming | November 14, 2008 at 05:18 pm

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We are entering another generation of the space race with India's landing of its first unmanned space craft. China has also been developing its space technology over the past decade with manned missions and last year the testing of the world's first land based anti-satellite missile technology.

India's first unmanned lunar probe has landed successfully on the moon, a milestone for the country's 45-year-old space programme.

The moon-landing on Friday is part of a two-year mission that lays the groundwork for further Indian space expeditions, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.

G Madhavan Nair, the ISRO chairman, said that cameras on board had transmited images of the moon back to Indian space control, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.

The moon mission was launched from the Sriharikota space centre in southern India on October 22.