With this goal in mind, there are a lot of similarities between the Apollo missions and Chandrayaan-2, besides the obvious differences. It is not even the first mission that ISRO has sent to the moon, but scientists see this mission as the first step towards Indians setting foot on the moon sometime in the future.
On 15 July, a day before the Apollo missions launch in 1969, Chandrayaan-2 will leave Earth to begin its journey to the Moon, 3.84 lakh kilometres away.Ĭhandrayaan -2 is not a manned mission.
