In anticipation of the upcoming Chandrayaan-3 mission, a team of scientists from the ISRO, including Scientific Secretary Shanthanu Batwuadekar, paid a visit to the Tirupathi Venkatachalapathy Temple in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday. Accompanied by a miniature model of Chandrayaan-3, the ISRO team offered prayers and sought divine blessings.
“This is Chandrayaan-3, our mission to moon. Our launch is scheduled tomarrow,” a scientist told media after offering prayers at the Tirupathi temple.
National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL) Director Amit Kumar Pathra, 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 big-ticket launch on Friday.
ISRO had earlier announced that Chandrayaan-3 would be launched on July 14, at 2:35 p.m. IST from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.
Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar exploration mission, will make India the fourth country to land its spacecraft on the moon’s surface and demonstrate its ability for safe and soft landings on the lunar surface. The countdown to the launch will begin later on Thursday, ahead of take off on Friday from Sriharikota.
