Introduction. Every powerful nation's first motive was to visit the moon. Even since Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon on July 20, 1969 it has been a back-to-the-Moon journey. In this very age of globalization each and very powerful country is realizing that the moon is within reach. Forget the US and the previous USSR, China, India, Japan and the European Space Agency (ESA), which comprises 17 nations, are now in the race. India's first unmanned spacecraft mission to moon. India's first unmanned spacecraft mission, Chandrayaan-I, was launched on October
22 from Sriharikota spacecraft. This spacecraft travelled in space for some days. This spacecraft is the smallest and the cheapest among all the spacecrafts sent to the moon.
Successful Mission. An entirely indigenously manufactured device, the Moon Impact Probe (MIP) with the tricolor painted on it about the size of a large television set was released from the Chandrayaan-I spacecraft.
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