Indian Spaceship Crashes Into Moon: Right on Schedule

"India Slams Probe into the Moon"
Space.com (November 14, 2008)

"Chandrayaan 1, India's first deep space mission, released its Moon Impact Probe for a suicide nosedive to the lunar surface, it was announced on Friday.

"The probe hit the moon at exactly 8:31 p.m. Indian Standard Time (10:01 a.m. EST), 25 minutes after being released from its carrier spacecraft, run by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Indian news organizations reported."

Sounds like they got data and pictures from the probe before it hit. The rest of the Indian spacecraft is in orbit around the Moon, collecting more data. None of the data or pictures has been released yet, though.

I'm glad to see that the mission has gone well, so far. India's put quite a bit into the Asian Moon race.

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