India could be the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the lunar surface (Credit: ISRO)

India’s space agency is prepping for their first soft
landing on the Moon today.

The mission, called Chandrayaan-2, would make India the fourth
country to reach the Moon’s surface — behind the United States, Russia, and
China.

The Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-2
mission consists of several parts, including an orbiter to observe the Moon for
a year, the Pragyan rover t