re loss of Chandrayaan - I is not going to thwart ISRO's future moon exploration plans. The space agency reiterated on 29th Sept., that it is going ahead with the even more ambitious Chandrayaan - II, a Rs 425 crore mission in collaboration with Russia. Indian space scientists plan to hoist in Indian into space by 2014, and thence on to lunar soil by around 2020.India has completed the design of Chandrayaan - II spacecraft, a project that involves a lander and rover, to pick up samples of lunar soil, analyze, and beam home data on chemical and mineral on the moon The exact spot for the lander-rover to touchdown will be decided using the more than 70,000 images of the moon's surface send by Chandrayaan - I. While ISRO will develop the orbiter, Russia will make the lander and rover.
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