Indian Flag on Moon @ Republic Day 2018

Update: 2016-12-02 16:35 GMT
Team Indus, a start-up, set a huge goal for itself to achieve. Yes, The plan is to paint the surface of the moon with tricolor on Republic Day January 26th, 2018.

The Private Firm bought a ticket aboard 320-ton PSLV rocket designed by India's space agency ISRO at commercial rates for this purpose.

Team Indus aims for the coveted Google Lunar XPRIZE. In 2007, $20 million prize money was announced for the first-ever private firm to land it robot on the moon and transmit back images/video.

The Bengaluru-based company is looking forward to send an orbiter, lander and a rover to the moon by the end of 2017. Team Indus is the first to buy a rocket among all the contenders for the prize in the World.
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