Modi cheers students at space centre amid gloom
The QuintBengaluru, Sep 7 Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with about 70 students from across the country at the space centre here and cheered them to do well in life amid gloom over loss of contact with lunar lander Vikram while descending towards the moon on early Saturday. He also asked them what they would tell at home when they go back about the Chandrayaan-2 mission despite a setback due to loss of communication link between Vikram and the space agency's ground stations," an official told IANS here. The Indian Space Research Organisation invited the students to witness Vikram landing and its rover Pragyan rolling out of it and stroll on the lunar surface near the south pole. "Study well, work hard and have self-confidence to achieve anything in life," Modi told the students during the brief interaction.