India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission could attempt to land on the moon.

<br>The Indian Space Research Organization’s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/science/india-moon-launch-chandrayaan-3.html?smid=spacecal">Chandrayaan-3 mission launched to space</a> successfully on July 14. It is on a journey to lunar orbit and at the end of August — either the 23rd or 24th — it will attempt to land on the moon’s southern polar region. A lander and rover from an earlier mission, Chandrayaan-2, crashed during a similar attempt in 2019.