The team from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) credited with the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission was recognized with the “2024 John L. ‘Jack’ Swigert Jr. Award for Space Exploration” on Monday. This information was reported by news agency ANI, citing a press release by the Space Foundation.
India’s Consul General in Houston, DC Manjunath, accepted the award on behalf of ISRO during the opening ceremony of the annual Space Symposium in Colorado.
In a press release, the Space Foundation emphasized that Chandrayaan-3, a mission developed by ISRO, has broadened humanity’s space exploration boundaries by achieving the milestone of being the first to land on the Moon’s South Pole.
