mission that started from July 22 with launch of Chandrayaan-2 craft achieved one milestone after ar in a phased manner. However, Vikram module lost contact minutes before crucial touchdown on lunar surface in early hours of Saturday. landing module, which was supposed to carry out various tests on lunar soil, completed rough braking phase as planned and entered phase of fine braking phase till altitude of 2.1 km. 

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Responding to big event, Bollywood celebrities including Riteish Deshmukh, Anupam Kher, and rapper Badshah took to ir Twitter handle to post a morale-boosting mess for ISRO scientists. Badshah wrote that it was only communication that was lost and t hope. Celebrities highlighted fact that y are proud of ISRO and 'we shall over come'. Read ir tweets -

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PM Modi's mess for ISRO scientists

Speaking to ISRO scientists at monitoring centre in Bengaluru, PM Modi asked m to be courous and said that country is proud of m. Adding that re are ups and downs in life, PM Modi appealed m to hope for best. 

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"Be courous. I am always re with you. re are ups and down in life. This is t a small achievement what you did. India is proud of all of you. Your hard work has taught us a lot. scientists have told us that if communication is established once again, n it will keep on giving us many things. Hope for best. You have done a good job. We will keep learning and moving ahead. I am with you wholeheartedly," PM Modi said speaking to ISRO scientists. 

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(With PTI Inputs)