Chandrayaan -2 landing on the surface of the moon is getting close day by day, and 60 students are selected from all across India who will all witness the historic landing with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ISRO had conducted a 'Space Quiz' for students from the eighth to the tenth standard. The child with the most number of correct answers in 10 minutes emerged the winner. The Chandrayaan -2 is scheduled to land on September 7, 2019.

Space quiz conducted by ISRO

Students from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, Meghalaya, Jharkhand, Odisha etc are chosen on the basis of the ISRO quiz.

Meghalaya's Ribait Phawa studies at Class 10 in Ramakrishna Mission Higher Secondary School in Cherrapunjee's Sohra

Jharkhand's Mridula Kumari is a student of Class 9 at St. Thomas School in Ranchi

Odisha's Chinmaya Choudhary studies in Class 8 in DAV Public School, Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) in Jharsuguda district.

Rashi Verma, a Class 10 student of Delhi Public School got selected to witness the landing of Chandrayaan-2

Delhi student Manogya Singh Suyansh has been selected by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to watch the landing of Chandrayaan-2 on the surface of the moon with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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These students are among 60 students who have been selected from across the country to watch India's ambitious moon mission Chandrayaan-2 landing on the surface of the moon with Modi at the ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru on September 7.

Two students from every state are being selected for the event on the basis of the online quiz

ISRO had conducted a 'Space Quiz' for students from the eighth to the tenth standard. The child with the most number of correct answers in 10 minutes emerged the winner.

The Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry had written to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and other state boards to encourage the children to participate in the quiz. It was conducted to promote awareness among children about India's ambitious space programme.

The landing of Chandrayaan-2 is expected to make India the fourth nation in the world, along with the USA, USSR and China, to land on the moon.

(Inputs from IANS, PTI)

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