India’s Next Moon Mission

Last year, India landed (or crashed) its Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft on the moon, after a successful lunar orbiting mission.

Now, they’re preparing to land.

India's going back to the moon

With Russian help

They’re 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.