India's first attempted moon landing heralds a new global space race
SINGAPORE - In early September, if all goes according to plan, an unmanned Indian spacecraft will touch down where none has landed before: less than 400 miles from the forbidding south pole of the moon.
The historic Chandrayaan-2 mission is expected to gather detailed information about water frozen inside large, shadowy craters pocking the rugged lunar surface, discoveries that could be crucial to realizing the vision of humans living on the moon.
Built entirely with homegrown expertise and technology, and for the relatively low price of about $140 million, the mission is
