Chandrayaan-2 one step closer to Moon landing

Bengaluru: The orbit of Chandrayaan-2's landing module 'Vikram' was successfully lowered for the first time on Tuesday and one final manoeuvre remained for India to pull off a historic soft-landing on the moon in the early hours of Saturday. The 4-second de-orbiting operation was undertaken a day after the indigenously developed lander was separated from Chandrayaan-2's orbiter in a significant milestone pushing India's second lunar mission into its last and most crucial leg - a controlled, soft-landing on the moon.