lndians think they have landed on Moon while Russians have failed.

They don't know Rus is working on new tech, while lnd is copying 1960s Soviet tech.

Successful to Failure data

Soviet : 18/38

USA : 37/15

China : 4/0

India : 1/2

Soviet has failed most and this is because Soviet used new technology most times and hence succeeded after constant failures. Now post 1991 Russia is working on raising the speed of Moon landing.

USA succeeded more as it used same proven technologies most times. It helped USA to make all old technologies perfect. US having more resources than Russia was able to do it.

For China other than landing on dark side of the Moon other three can't be called new tech. Surely making use of a new tech perfectly at the first chance is a great job. Only China can match the resource of USA and that is the reason China is only competitor of USA in space tech.

Why soft landing on Dark side of the Moon is so important?

1. Since the dark side of moon never faces earth, hence the earth borne communication systems like antenna will have no direct line of sight with the craft during descend, that means Chinese must have used some form of advanced A.I system to guide the craft to the pitch black dark grounds of moon, because without a direct line of sight from earth a manual control from earth is not going to be reliable. Hence Chinese A.I excelled here. In other word the Chinese craft was flying autonomously

2. Chinese have used sophisticated optical, electro optical and night vision equipment for the dark side operation, duh ! Superior to anything anyone used in past on lunar surface

India has succeeded in adapting 1960s Soviet technology of Moon landing in 2023 and that also after failing two times. India has landed closest to South Pole and that actually has no technological significance.

UAE-Japan may be next to land on Moon together which will be 1990s technology.