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Chandrayaan-2, India’s second moon mission (seeking to explore the unchartered Lunar south pole by landing a rover) was successfully launched from Sriharikota (Chennai) today. Naturally, it is a moment of great pride for the entire nation and soon after the successful launch, congratulatory messages started pouring in for Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) team for achieving yet another mammoth feat.

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Several Bollywood celebs took to their social media handle and expressed their happiness over the successful launch of ‘Chandrayaan 2’. Khiladi Akshay Kumar, who will be seen playing an ISRO scientist in his upcoming film ‘Mission Mangal’, expressed his gratitude in a post.

Shah Rukh Khan recalled lyrics of his hit song and congratulated ISRO team in his own unique style.

R Madhavan, who will be seen portraying the role of Nambi Narayanan (a former scientist in ISRO in his upcoming film ‘Rocketry: The Nambi Effect’) wrote that with ‘Chandrayaan 2’, the brightest side of Indian space exploration will commence now.

Raveena Tandon congratulated team ISRO for giving us this historic moment.

Vivek Oberoi also expressed his feelings and said that he is praying for the success of this mission.

Nimrat Kaur said that this was a moment where she had goosebumps all over.

Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar also expressed his happiness over the remarkable achievement of team ISRO.

India’s second space mission to the moon – ‘Chandrayaan 2’ – is led by two women scientists of ISRO. It is a first in India’s history! So naturally, everyone is literally over the moon after its successful launch. It was scheduled to launch on July 14. However, due to some technical snag, its launch date was shifted to July 22.

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