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The launch comes a week after the first attempt for lift-off was aborted due to a technical snag.
Billed as the most complex and prestigious mission undertaken by the ISRO since its inception, Chandrayaan-2 will make India the fourth country to soft-land a rover on the lunar surface after Russia, the United States and China.
The engineers at the Mission Control in Houston were incredibly young, their average age being just 26 years. This was exactly what the ambitious mission needed.
The Indian space agency on Thursday announced that the Chandrayaan-2 launch has been rescheduled for July 22, seven days after the ambitious launch by ISRO had to be aborted an hour before the lift off.
Confusion prevailed for several minutes before ISRO came out with an official confirmation about the launch being cancelled.
After a full dress rehearsal last week, the countdown for the mission commenced Sunday and scientists were involved in propellant filling.
The Chandrayaan-2 mission, that takes off exactly 50 years after the astronauts of Apollo II made their historic voyage to the Sea of Tranquillity on the Moon, will attempt a historic touchdown near the Moon's south pole, "where water ice lurks in permanently shadowed craters".
It will explore moon's topography and composition besides searching for water using technology completely developed in India.
The landing on the moon near the South Pole, an uncharted territory so far, would be on September 6 or 7.
Interestingly, for the Chandryaan-2 mission, women constitute around 30 per cent of workforce at various ISRO centres.