India’s Chandrayaan-3 probe successfully lands on the lunar south pole India is now the first nation to successfully achieve a soft landing near the Moon’s southern pole. | Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP via Getty ImagesIndia’s Chandrayaan-3 mission has made space travel history today by successfully achieving a soft landing near the south pole of Earth’s Moon, just days after Russia’s Luna 25 spacecraft crashed…

India’s Chandrayaan-3 Moon Landing: How and When to Watch Coming on the heels of Russia’s lunar lander crash over the weekend, India is hoping to become on Wednesday the first nation to set down in the moon’s south polar region.

India’s Chandrayaan-3 Moon Launch: How and When to Watch The mission is in part a redo of a 2019 attempt to put a robotic lander and rover on the lunar surface that ended in a crash. Here’s what you need to know.