India’s accomplishments in space are getting more impressive

Enlarge / A view of India’s Vikram lander taken Wednesday from the Pragyan rover.ISRO

It’s been more than a week since India’s Chandrayaan 3 mission landed on the Moon, and it’s a good time to assess where the world’s most populous nation stands relative to other global other space powers.

The successful arrival of the Chandrayaan 3 mission’s Vikram lander on the Moon made India the first country besides China to achieve a soft landing on the lunar surface since 1976, following a series of failed landings by private organizations and India itself four years ago. And it made India

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