Chandrayaan 3 landed near the south pole of the Moon. This is India's first successful moon landing and also the historic first landing of a probe near the South Pole.

At 1:30pm (London time), it ended with joy at the control centre of the Indian space agency Isro. The Indian Chandrajana 3 expedition has successfully landed on the South Pole of the Moon. This is the first successful landing on the Moon for this country and at the same time the first landing of any probe near the South Pole.

In India, the expedition generated much excitement and media attention. Millions of people watched the broadcast of the event today, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi also closely followed the expedition. “India's success is not just our success. This is the success of all mankind. Our expedition will also help other countries who want to go to the moon and beyond," Modi emphasized in a live broadcast and called on other countries to build space expeditions. "The sky is not the limit," he emphasized, adding that today showed that it is possible to learn from defeats and ultimately succeed.

Expedition leader P Viramuthuvel thanked all those who worked for this expedition in a joyful mood at the control centre. As he said, the landing brought him "deep satisfaction".

Director Isra S Somnath was also extremely grateful and enthusiastic, who also thanked the team of engineers and scientists. He added that "this is not just our work, this is the work of generations of scientists from our agency".

India achieved the historic feat just days after Russia's failed Luna 25 mission, when the probe also tried to land in a crater at the South Pole but had its engines on for too long during the de-orbit manoeuvre and flew too low, eventually crashing to the surface.

India is only the fourth country to make a soft landing on the moon - so far only the US, the former Soviet Union and China have managed to do so. All these countries used to land their vessels in the equatorial part of the Moon, then in early 2019, China became the first country to land on the side of the Moon, which is invisible to us, with the Chang'e 4 lander.

Indian expedition number three follows the successful Chandrayaan 1 expedition in 2008, when a satellite was launched into lunar orbit. This orbiter was equipped with a 29-kilogram probe that was deliberately smashed against the surface near the South Pole. In doing so, a cloud of dust and stones was released, in which water ice was detected. The Chandrayaan 2 expedition was only partially successful. The orbiter entered orbit in August 2019 and is still operating, while the lander with the rover crashed on September 6 of the same year due to a software error that improperly controlled the braking motors.

Chandrayaan, which translates as "lunar craft", was launched on July 14. It consists of the nearly two-ton lander Vikram, which was named after the founder of the Indian Space Agency (Isro), Vikram Sarabhai, at the same time the word means smart and brave, and in its "belly" it also has the 26-kilogram rover Pragjan, which translates as wisdom. After a successful landing, the Vikram lander will first wait for the dust raised by contact with the ground to settle, and only then will Pragjan also drive to the surface, which will then collect data on the rocks, take photographs and send the images to Earth for analysis.

Both was expected to operate on the surface for 14 days, or one lunar day. The day of the landing was carefully chosen to be the beginning of the day on the Moon, as the batteries are charged by sunlight. When the 14-day night begins, the batteries will die, so it is unclear whether the craft will be able to be revived when the lunar day begins again. During a lunar night, temperatures drop well below zero, which can further damage vessels.

The space community is looking forward to India's success. Among other things, the director of the European Space Agency, Josef Aschbacher, has already congratulated India. “What a good way to demonstrate new technology and the first landing for India on another celestial body. Great job, I'm impressed,” he wrote on the X network.

It is something “special” with successful historic first landing of a probe near the South Pole without any shadow of the doubt however the questions what I am trying to get the answers on are "mission impossible" to get from whoever from No.10.t Why I asked these questions?

Let me be clear, the figure that the UK provided to India since 2016 and 2021 is £2.4 billion in aid.

I could not get confirmation for the year 2022 - the No.10 Press Centre does not reply to letters - I believe that they simple don't want to make comments on since Rishi is the PM and not anymore Chief Secretary to the Treasury (2019) or later the Canceler of Exchequer (2020).

What is also very significant in the figures available which I checked - nearly £302 million as "investments" into Indian enterprises which are somehow connected with Rishi Sunak family (bilateral aid, development or multilateral exchange - investment).

If I am not mistaken – Boris Johnson, make quite some effort to persuade British Nation for Brexit on basis that UK cannot pay to Europe £320 million and that his government will invest rather into the infrastructure in the United Kingdom.

Boris Johnson won election because of these lies about how Brexit will benefit British people, but nobody mention that UK were paying to India nearly 3 times more at the same time.

Del Boy would say “Who gives a monkey”.

I do, because Brexit costs us much more than you can even imagine but this is something what No.10 don’t want you to know and they are fiddling with numbers further – trying to persuade the nation that they are doing all OK and that everything is going smoothly what is all conservative party talking shop!

Same as Suella Braverman this morning in the interview confirmed that the small boats are dealt with, that UK have 20,000 more police officer - what is complete misleading again (all together just 2992 because they sack 20,000 on first place) but that is another story you must not miss it!