The successful Chandrayaan-3 mission has opened up the potential to use the Moon as a take-off point for future planetary missions, and bolstered India's credentials to participate in such futuristic explorations, veteran space scientist K. Kasturirangan said on Thursday.
Mr. Kasturirangan said the soft-landing and ability to manoeuvre after touchdown to explore the neighbourhood and all that goes along with it including the understanding of the entire process have given the ISRO a "total capability".
“The futuristic planetary explorations are going to dominate humankind’s activity in the 21st century,” he said.
