Celebrating National Space Day at Pimpri Chinchwad Science Park

The Kalpakghar team marked this special day with an innovative experience for our visitors! To understand the challenges of a soft lunar landing, we designed a unique Lander Simulator at the Science Park. Visitors eagerly participated, experiencing the thrill of landing just like "Vikram" did on the moon! 

We also streamed a live talk from IISER Pune on India’s Space Programme, allowing our visitors to learn more about the nation’s incredible achievements in space exploration.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in celebrating National Space Day!

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Also, we celebrated National Space Day with a special online talk on India’s space program, streamed live from IISER Pune’s YouTube channel.

Title of talk:  Indian Space Programme - Past, Present and Future

Name of speaker with affiliation:  Prof. Bhas Bapat, Department of Physics, IISER Pune

Date: August 23, 2024

Time:  11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

About National Space Day:

Chandrayaan-3 mission accomplished safe and soft landing of Vikram Lander on the lunar surface on August 23, 2023. With this, India became the fourth country to land on the moon and the first to land near the southern polar region of the moon. The soft landing was followed by the successful deployment of Pragyan Rover. The landing site was named 'Shiv Shakti' point (Statio Shiv Shakti), and August 23 was declared "National Space Day".

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