Chandrayaan-3 Wins 2026 AIAA Goddard Astronautics Award
21 May 2026National
ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 mission received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' Goddard Astronautics Award at the ASCEND Conference in Washington DC, honouring the 2023 lunar south-pole soft landing.
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