At just shy of 9 PM EDT on October 21, India has successfully launched an unmanned rocket headed for the moon on a two year mission.
Lifting off from southern Andhra Pradesh, the Chandrayaan 1 is carrying eleven payloads to study the Earth-Moon relationship and further map the moon’s surface. The international collaboration resulted in five of the instruments being designed and developed in India, three on the behalf of the European Space Agency, one from Bulgaria, and two from NASA.
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