By India Today Science Desk: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) launched Chandrayaan-3 to the Moon on July 14 on a mission to attempt a soft landing on the lunar surface.

The spacecraft is currently cruising in space and is expected to reach lunar orbit by August 5 and the soft-landing attempt is likely to be on August 23. The spacecraft will cover the nearly 3,84,000 kilometers distance between the Earth and Moon in nearly 40 days, which is much longer than what the Apollo mission launched by Nasa would take.