Chandrayaan 3 triumph boosts India's pride amid Russia's Luna 25 setback

In the history of space treaty, the Moon Treaty is highly unsuccessful as only 20 countries signed this treaty. The countries which have signed are mostly very insignificant presence in outer space.

- ABHINAV MEHROTRA , DR. BISWANATH

The success of Chandrayaan 3 has brought an immense amount of self-respect and glory to every proud Indian. India has achieved what only few other selected countries have been able to do before especially at a time when the Russian Luna 25 has crashed whose purpose was to establish Russian supremacy and control in outer space.

Historically, since 1969, there were several moon missions have been accomplished and many of them were equally successful but ISRO’s landing at the South Pole of the Moon has created history in space science and technology in its own way. Though different newspapers have highlighted the growing trends of the Moon race in the case of India soon after the landing, the Prime Minster announced that this was a victory of humanity which has a lot of legal and moral significance. This is especially significant since there is a chance of an unethical space race on the Moon, which may be detrimental to world peace. This has been a concern due to military advantage in space technology, since the launching of Sputnik 1 by the USSR in 1957, the United Nations took cognizance of the situation and formed a committee to regulate outer space activities. The primary objective of the committee was not to allow space for another battleground.