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Bharat Thakkar
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Did Vikram crash onto the Moon?
Great science results from great contestation. It is in this spirit that I contest the assertion by the leadership of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) that its Vikram lunar lander’s failure was a result of “hard landing.” When a significant aspect of the Rs 978 crore (about $140 million) space mission, namely the landing of the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover, failed, it was incumbent on the ISRO leadership to engage in a brutally honest determination of what went wrong rather than offering early assertions, such as that the mission was over 90% successful.
22 January 2020, 02:57 IST
Did Vikram crash onto the Moon?
22 January 2020, 02:57 IST