<p class="title">The Department of Posts, West Bengal, on Saturday released a commemorative Special Cover on the Chandrayaan-2 mission.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Special Cover was released at a function at the General Post Office (GPO) here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The Special Cover is to pay tribute to our scientists who took India's space research so far," Post-Master General Kolkata Amitabh Singh said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Communications with Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander to ISRO's ground station in Bengaluru were lost before touchdown on the hitherto unexplored lunar south pole in the early hours of Saturday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM) here has arranged a live demonstration of the last few hours of the moon mission.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Over 300 school children along with teachers and scientists took part in the programme, a BITM spokesperson said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We are proud that scientists of ISRO succeeded to put Chandrayaan-2 orbiter in the lunar orbit. They made us proud for going this far," Harshit Bhatt, a class 10 student of a city school, said when asked if the loss of communication from the lander in the final lap was disappointing for him.</p>.<p class="bodytext">West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar also attended the live demonstration at BITM for some time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We need to encourage scientific temperament among the youth. We are proud of our scientists," Dhankar said before the start of the demonstration.</p>
<p class="title">The Department of Posts, West Bengal, on Saturday released a commemorative Special Cover on the Chandrayaan-2 mission.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Special Cover was released at a function at the General Post Office (GPO) here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The Special Cover is to pay tribute to our scientists who took India's space research so far," Post-Master General Kolkata Amitabh Singh said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Communications with Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander to ISRO's ground station in Bengaluru were lost before touchdown on the hitherto unexplored lunar south pole in the early hours of Saturday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM) here has arranged a live demonstration of the last few hours of the moon mission.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Over 300 school children along with teachers and scientists took part in the programme, a BITM spokesperson said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We are proud that scientists of ISRO succeeded to put Chandrayaan-2 orbiter in the lunar orbit. They made us proud for going this far," Harshit Bhatt, a class 10 student of a city school, said when asked if the loss of communication from the lander in the final lap was disappointing for him.</p>.<p class="bodytext">West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar also attended the live demonstration at BITM for some time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We need to encourage scientific temperament among the youth. We are proud of our scientists," Dhankar said before the start of the demonstration.</p>