Chandrayaan-2 LIVE UPDATES: Vikram set for historic touchdown on moon's south pole

Chandrayaan-2 Moon Landing Live Updates: At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will wake up to unbridled enthusiasm. A few hours but a million hopes pinned on India's second moon mission -- Chandrayaan-2 --  that has the entire world on tenterhooks. The golden moment, at 1:55 am on September 7, is set to bring glory to India when 'Vikram' the lander will touchdown on moon's south pole. It will be after a journey of 48 days that Chandrayaan-2 will make a final descend towards moon's surface. A rover called 'Pragyaan' would roll out from the 'Vikram' lander to carry out various tests on the lunar soil, especially detecting the presence of water and other minerals there.

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