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PM Modi congratulates Japanese counterpart, space agency on lunar landing

IndiaTimes Saturday, 20 January 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday congratulated his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida and the country's aerospace agency for landing a spacecraft on the Moon, and said India looks to cooperation in space exploration. He was responding to a post on X by Kishida announcing the successful moon landing.Modi said, "Congratulations Prime Minister @Kishida230 and everyone at JAXA on achieving Japan's first soft Moon landing. India looks forward to our cooperation in space exploration between @isro and JAXA."
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Japan's space agency on Saturday (January 20) said it was examining the communication with its probe after it landed on the moon, during an attempt to become the world's fifth country to achieve a moonshot and revitalize a space program that suffered recent setbacks.

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