'Perhaps the government should explain how the same scientific temper, which authored a precise landing for Chandrayaan-3, finds the periodic table and the theory of evolution not good enough for inclusion in the educational curriculum,' asserts Shyam G Menon.
ISRO chairman K Sivan said the proposed soft-landing was going to be a 'terrifying' moment.
Other than the Cartosat-2 series satellite, the PSLV is carrying 29 nano satellites from 14 countries - Austria, Belgium, Chile, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America besides a nano satellite from India.
Having reached the Red Planet, ISRO can now focus on getting humans in space and secure the resources to do it
'When you look at it from the point of view of science, Chandrayaan 2 is a big success.'
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