Last year, India landed (or crashed) something called the Moon Impactor Probe (carried by its Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft) into the moon. The main spacecraft continues its lunar orbiting mission.
Next time, they’re preparing to land.
India's going back to the moon
With Russian help
India’s getting help from some real experts—the Russian space agency. The RSA is designing a small lunar rover, which will explore the surface after a soft-landing by Chandrayaan-2.
Britain, Germany, Russia, Sweden, and the US contributed instrument packages to the earlier moon mission.
Chandrayaan-2 is slated for a 2011 launch.
[...] India’s Next Moon Mission – The Space Buff The Indians next goal is to land a craft on the lunar surface with a little help from the Russian space agency. [...]
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