India’s Next Moon Mission

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.