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Modi Floats BRICS Space Group as Chandrayaan-3 Lands on Moon
- Chandrayaan-3 landed on the moon at 6:04 p.m. India time
- India PM also mooted creating repository of traditional drugs
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested the creation of a BRICS space consortium, hours before a spacecraft from the South Asian nation landed near the moon’s south pole.
Modi was speaking at the plenary session of the BRICS bloc — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — in Johannesburg on Wednesday. India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole after Russia’s attempt at a lunar touch down in the same area ended in failure following an engine malfunction.