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- India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission team has been given US space exploration award.
- For raising space exploration standards, India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission team has won 2024 Jack Swigert Jr. Award.
- Chandrayaan-3 was a mission developed by ISRO. India became the first country to land on South Pole of the Moon.
- India’s Consul General in Houston D C Manjunath received the award on behalf of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
- D C Manjunath received the award during the opening ceremony of the annual Space Symposium in Colorado. The award was announced in January.
- Chandrayaan-3 touched down on the lunar South Pole on August 23.
- Jack Swigert Award is given annually at the Space Symposium by the Space Foundation.
- It recognizes extraordinary achievements by a company, space agency, or consortium of organisations in space exploration and discovery.
- The award honours the memory of astronaut John L. “Jack” Swigert Jr., who served on Apollo 13 lunar mission.
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