Q. Recently, which mission received the 2024 John L ‘Jack’ Swigert Jr. Award for space exploration?
Answer:
Chandrayaan-3 Mission
Notes: The ISRO Chandrayaan-3 mission team received the 2024 John L ‘Jack’ Swigert Jr. award for space exploration from the US-based Space Foundation. This prestigious accolade, presented during the Space Symposium, recognizes outstanding contributions to space exploration. India's Consul General in Houston accepted the award, highlighting the mission's technical prowess. The Space Foundation lauded India's leadership in space, emphasizing its recent milestone of landing a spacecraft on the Moon’s South Pole.