The newspaper headlines the morning after India made history said it all: “The moon is Indian,” declared English-language daily The Indian Express as it heralded the country’s achievement of becoming the first nation to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole.
“India goes where no nation’s gone before,” screamed another headline in the Times of India.
As the dust raised by the spacecraft’s lander, Vikram, settled more than 380,000 kilometres away and the rover, named Pragyaan, took its first steps on the lunar surface Thursday, the mood down on Earth was still celebratory.
“Our scientists proved to the world that they are also capable,” Mumbai resident Kirit Shah
