NEW DELHI -- India on Friday launched an ambitious mission to land a spacecraft on the moon, anxious to forget about a previous disappointment and become the fourth nation to make it to the celestial body.
Success would make nation the fourth to reach the lunar surface

An Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) rocket carrying the Chandrayaan-3 lunar spacecraft lifts off on July 14. © AFP/Jiji
NEW DELHI -- India on Friday launched an ambitious mission to land a spacecraft on the moon, anxious to forget about a previous disappointment and become the fourth nation to make it to the celestial body.