Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on the phone with ISRO chief S Somanath right after Chandrayaan-3 successfully touched down on the Moon's southern pole. This momentous achievement made India the very first country to land a spacecraft on the mysterious dark side of the lunar surface. PM Modi had also been part of the ISRO team's moment of triumph as Chandrayaan-3 safely landed on the Moon. He hailed this success as the "beginning of a new era for India," matching ISRO's sentiment that "India has now set foot on the Moon."
