Aiming to take “a billion dreams” to the moon, India has successfully launched its second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2. The launch was done from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh at 2.43 pm IST on Monday (July 22).
The prime objective of the mission is to map the location and abundance of lunar water. Chandrayaan-2 was launched using the 640-tonne rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch V🍸ehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III).
Shortly after the spacecraft was successfully launched, Indian cricket fraternity took to social media to congratulate the Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO). The likes of Virat Kohli, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar and Suresh Raina shared their felicitations over their respective Twitter handl🌠es.
Another historic and prಌoud moment for the na💎tion as the 2 is launched 🙏🏻 Jai Hind 🇮🇳
— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli)
Many congratulations to Team 🧸for the successful and seamless launch !
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag)
I always looked up at the moon as a child, wondering what secrets it's hiding. The successful launch of will shed some light on these secrets, & motivate the next gen to help India's space exploration programme. I congratulate everyone at for this success.
— Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir)
I congratulate Tea🅷m on achieving yet another ♒milestone with the launch of !
Hope this paves the way for m🦂any more ambitious and successful missions in the future. Jai Hind 🇮🇳!
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt)
This is HISTORIC! Propelling a billion dreams into the sky. What a proud moment for �ღ�🇳
— Suresh Raina🇮🇳 (@ImRaina)
Exemplary 🌳! Many congratulations to on the succe⭕ssful launch of .
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281)
Indeed a histori💃c moᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚment for India. 🇮🇳 Congratulations to all the members of for successfully launching
— Shikhar Dhawan (@SDhawan25)
Congrats to team on the successful launch of .
A historic and a proud moment for us. 🇮🇳🙏🏻— Kuldeep yadav (@imkuldeep18)
Some countries have moon on their flags
🇵🇰🇹🇷🇹🇳🇱🇾🇦🇿🇩🇿🇲🇾🇲🇻🇲🇷While some countries having their flags on moon
🇺🇸 🇷🇺 🇮🇳 🇨🇳— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh)
Congratulations team , this i꧃s a veryꩵ proud and historical moment for India!
— Cheteshwar Pujara (@cheteshwar1)
This is literally “Shooting for the moon”🙏🏻🙏🏻
Congratulations for the historic achievement.
Another proud moment for the nation.-2— IamKedar (@JadhavKedar)
Congratulations to on successful launch of . Salute to all the scientists whose efforts have made this possible. Bravo guys!
You have made the nation proud.— Vinod Kambli (@vinodkambli349)
Congratulations on the launch. Pray the mission is as successful. Southern half of the moon could have the answers for both ꦑpast n future n could be the game changer
— Deep Dasgupta (@DeepDasgupta7)
Yet another wonderful achievement b💫y , they constantly make sure of taking the nation forward in their field and making us proud time and again!
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
What a be♋autiful sight. Proud moment for the nation on the launch of
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif)
