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It's a big deal because India has never landed on the moon before; only three nations have.

• goku12 3y ago
  This is the first time India soft-landed anything outside of Earth. That by itself is a big deal. Soft-landing guidance on a body without atmosphere is much more complex than launch guidance.
• rospaya 3y ago
  > With this mission, India became the first to impact the Lunar south pole and the 7th nation to reach the lunar surface. Wiki article for Chandrayaan-1 from 2008.
  • mkl 3y ago
    India became the 4th to land successfully with Chandrayaan-3 just now. Others have crashed or deliberately impacted.
  • goku12 3y ago
    Impactors and landers are classified differently. So both your comment and the one you were replying to are correct.