"Appreciations and thanks..." ISRO after success of Chandrayaan-3 mission

New Delhi [India], August 23 : As the lander module Vikram of the country's third lunar mission made a soft landing, the country's space research agency on Wednesday thanked everyone for their contributions to the "ISRO-turned-National endeavour called Chandrayaan-3". 
Taking to social media platform X, formerly called Twitter, the Indian Space Research Organisation said, "India is on the moon. Appreciations and thanks for all the contributions from India and abroad to this ISRO-turned-National endeavour called Chandrayaan-3."
Officials at India's space agency ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru broke into applause after the Vikram began its powered vertical descent towards its landing site.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is attending the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg watched the live telecast and as soon as the touchdown happened he sported a big smile and waved the tricolour.
The countdown of the Vikram hovered at 150 metres, then 130 metres, and 50 metres and decelerated as approached the moon's service before finally touching down on the lunar surface.
As the Vikram lander carrying the Pragyaan rover in its belly touched down on the lunar surface, it marked a giant leap in India’s spacefaring journey providing a well-deserved finale to ISRO’s long years of toil.
This makes India the fourth country – after the US, China, and Russia – to have successfully landed on the moon’s surface, it has earned a place in record books as the first to touchdown on the south side of Earth’s only natural satellite.