{"id":485996,"date":"2023-08-26T10:07:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T04:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=485996"},"modified":"2023-08-26T10:09:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T04:39:49","slug":"chandrayaan-3-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/chandrayaan-3-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandrayaan 3: PM Modi lauds ISRO scientists, names Vikram Lander&#8217;s touchdown point as Shiv Shakti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation on the successful Chandrayaan 3 mission and added that people from across the globe who believe in science and the future are filled with enthusiasm over the achievement. He further praised them for taking Make in India to the Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister who was on a three day visit to South Africa, flew down to Bengaluru directly from Greece. He expressed that he could not stop himself from reaching the city first on his return to pay tribute to the ISRO scientists. ISRO Chief S Somanath received Narendra Modi and also briefed him on ISRO\u2019s 40-day journey to the lunar South Pole and the efforts that went into the project.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PM Narendra Modi met the team of scientists at ISRO who were involved in the country\u2019s third lunar mission, Chandrayaan 3. Addressing the scientists, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the touchdown point of Chandrayaan 3 will be called Shiv Shakti and the place where Chandrayaan 2 left its footprint on the lunar surface in 2019 will be called Tiranga Point. In addition, he announced that India will celebrate August 23 as \u2018National Space Day\u2019 to mark the successful touchdown of Chandrayaan 3 mission\u2019s lander and to celebrate science and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/chandrayaan-3-landing-pm-modi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chandrayaan 3: PM Modi says India\u2019s moon mission success belongs to all of humanity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi also noted women scientists&#8217; role in successful landing of Chandrayaan 3. He added that women are now leading India\u2019s scientific endeavors and the women scientists played an important role in Chandrayaan 3. He further underlined that experts believe that India\u2019s space industry will become $16 billion from $8 billion in few years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of meeting the ISRO scientists, PM Modi raised the slogan, Jai Vigyan Jai Anusandhan and greeted the people lining the street outside HAL airport after his arrival in Bengaluru. Speaking at ISRO telemetry Tracking and Command Network Mission Control Complex, PM Network Mission Control Complex, he expressed that today he is feeling a different level of happiness and such occasions are very rare. He added that he was restless when he was in South Africa and his mind was with the scientists.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He announced that India will celebrate August 23 as \u2018National Space Day\u2019 to mark the successful touchdown of Chandrayaan 3 mission\u2019s lander and to celebrate science and technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":485998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[159528,160262,160263,1440],"yst_prominent_words":[75916,6625,6619,3715,3710,10380,4396,6620,6618,8517,14183],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/08\/26100607\/cr-20230714en64b12b7777ca8-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485996"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=485996"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=485996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->