Summary Mission comes less than week after Russia's Luna-25 mission failed

Russia's Putin and NASA congratulate India

India becomes fourth nation to successfully land spacecraft on the moon

Launch budget of about $74 million less than the cost to produce 2013 Hollywood space thriller 'Gravity'

BENGALURU, Aug 23 (Reuters) – An Indian spacecraft landed on the rugged, unexplored south pole of the moon on Wednesday in a mission seen as crucial to lunar exploration and India's standing as a space power, just days after a similar Russian lander crashed.

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