- Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on August 26 that the point where Chandrayaan-3 lander Vikram landed on the lunar surface on August 23 would be named Shiv Shakti.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi also declared August 23 as National Space Day to commemorate the remarkable achievement of Chandrayaan-3 landing on the Moon.
- PM Modi’s big announcement took place at ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru.
- He said there was also discussion on naming the place where Chandrayaan-2 crashed in 2019, but he believed this should happen only if the next mission succeeds in soft-landing.
- In 2019, the hard landing point of Chandrayaan-2 was named “Tiranga”.
