
India is set to get into the select group of nations that have sent their mission to the far away moon. The Indian space craft Chandrayan is set to land in the moon by November second week, after several weeks of traveling in space. The successful tracking till date in itself is a commendable achievement by the scientific community of Indian space research organization, which has been banned from procuring advanced technology items from other countries a decade back. Even then the Indian scientists have proven their mettle and successfully launched and moved their space craft towards moon in the past few weeks. There are only five other nations that have successfully sent moon missions so far, including US, Russia and France.