PM at Isro centre to watch Chandrayaan-2 moon landing
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will watch the historic Chandrayaan 2 lunar landing live from the ISRO control room in Bengaluru accompanied by around 70 school students from across the country. The students are winners of an online quiz competition conducted by ISRO in August, with the top two scorers from each state and union territories invited to watch India join an elite club of countries to have successfully completed a soft landing on the surface of the Moon.
ISRO's online space quiz, conducted in coordination with MyGov.in between August 10 and August 25, was an attempt to increase awareness about the country's space programme. The quiz lasted 10 minutes and contained a total of 20 questions. The winners were selected on the basis of "maximum correct answers in the shortest time".
"Two top scoring students from class 8-10 from each state and union territory will be invited to Indian Space Research Organisation, Bengaluru Centre to watch the landing of Chandrayaan 2 on the Moon, live with the Honourable PM Narendra Modi," .
Chandrayaan 2 will complete its soft landing on the Moon's surface, making India only the fourth country to achieve the feat and the first to land near the lunar South Pole on its first attempt.
The Rs.1,000-crore Chandrayaan 2 mission consists of three parts - a lunar orbiter, a lander called Vikram and a rover called Pragyaan.
In the next phase of the mission, Pragyaan, which is housed inside Vikram, will roll out between 5.30 and 6.30 am and deliver two scientific payloads to the Moon's surface. Vikram itself contains three additional payloads to conduct surface and subsurface experiments, and the orbiter carries eight others to map the surface and study the Moon's outer atmosphere.
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