National Space Day

The success of the Vikram lander, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his visit to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) headquarters in Bengaluru on August 26, made the announcement to observe August 23 as National Space Day.

On 23 August 2023, India achieved a historic milestone with the successful soft landing of chandrayaan-3 near the Lunar pole. India has become the fourth nation in the world to land a spacecraft on the moon and the first to land near the south pole of the lunar surface. The Vikram lander had also deployed the Pragyan rover on the moon to study the lunar surface.

The outcome of this historic mission will benefit mankind in the years to come. To commemorate the historic landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon, National Space Day (NSpD) will be celebrated every year on August 23.