The entire country of India and Indians around the world were celebrating the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the moon. On Wednesday, India’s Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) made a successful soft landing on the south pole of the moon, becoming the first ever country to land on moon’s south pole.
At 6:04 IST, the lander containing a rover smoothly, and slowly made contact with the lunar surface, eking out applause and jubiliation from Indians all over the world.
Netizens erupted on social media to celebrate and congratulate ISRO for the success of this historic mission. The ISRO scientists have to overcome the setback they had faced in 2019, when the mission had failed in its last stage.
On 6 September 2019. the lander had “crashed when it deviated from its intended trajectory while attempting to land”. That time the crash was caused by a “software glitch”. The ISRO reattempted in 2023 and got success. They had launched the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft in July and it completed a 41-day trip today to have a soft landing on the south pole.
Fans blast Mumbai Indian admin for “disrespectful” tweet on Chandrayaan-3
As fans put out celebratory and congratulatory tweets on big numbers, Mumbai Indians posted a tweet that the fans called “shameful” and “disrespectful”.
In their tweet, the Mumbai Indians drew a parallel of India’s loss in the 2019 World Cup and their upcoming aim in the World Cup 2023 to the Chandrayaan-2’s failure in 2019 and the success of Chandrayaan-3 in 2023. The Mumbai Indians used a photo of India and MI captain Rohit Sharma in their post.
Here, check out MI’s post and reactions on it:
𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗩𝗘 🇮🇳#OneFamily #Chandrayaan_3 #Ch3 #Chandrayaan3 #VikramLander pic.twitter.com/kU9InzTlD4
— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) August 23, 2023
https://twitter.com/on_drive23/status/1694336417995088215?s=20
https://twitter.com/on_drive23/status/1694336417995088215?s=20
With this logic
This is Russian Rohit Sharmav with world cups pic.twitter.com/mE5vTA37Vn— Archer (@poserarcher) August 23, 2023
https://twitter.com/Supriya_pro/status/1694337397910348200?s=20
https://twitter.com/Rcb_Xtra/status/1694340149717667983?s=20
Unbelievable clout chasing page.
— Jaanvi🏏 (@that_shutterbug) August 23, 2023
Most shameless fc
— MAHIYANK™ (@Mahiyank_78) August 23, 2023
What a disrespect for ISRO
— M. (@IconicKohIi) August 23, 2023
https://twitter.com/Gokul_Officl/status/1694339419480920310?s=20
India skipper Rohit Sharma took to Twitter to hail this achievement from the ISRO team.
“The 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 to reach the lunar south pole. That’s got a nice ring to it A proud moment for each one of us & a big congratulations to @isro for all their efforts,” Rohit Sharma tweeted.
Rohit Sharma is currently in Bangalore at the NCA where the Indian players are having a camp before flying out to Sri Lanka for the Asia Cup 2023.
