BENGALURU, KARNATAKA, INDIA, JUNE 10, 2019. India’s moon shot in the clean room at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Bengaluru. India is ready to fly to the moon tentatively slated for lift off at 2.51 AM IST on July 15, 2019 with its satellite Chandrayaan-2, a 3.8 ton satellite which comprises of an orbiter; a lander named Vikram and a lunar rover called Pragyaan. This will be the first time India is attempting a soft landing on the moon. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) hopes to land the farthest from the lunar equator, nearer to the South Pole of the moon (on Near Side of the moon) as compared to any other earlier mission by any country. India is carrying 13 scientific instruments and a NASA instrument is being carried for free to the moon. The first Indian mission Chandrayaan-1 launched in 2008 was the first mission to discover the presence of water molecules on the parched lunar surface. The Indian mission has cost about $ 150 million and it will be launched from Sriharikota using the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III. (Photo by Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images)