This is the first time I'm hearing about the jeet moon landing. Anywhere I can educate myself without "experts claim and confirm"?
India's space efforts are fairly "sophisticated" in that it is basically trying to re-trod stuff done in the 50s, 60s and 70s. It became notable for having the "cheapest Mars Mission" and doing stuff on the first attempt. ISRO has been able to effectively use (remember, India has a large population so it can pull from that, and with their labour market they can cheaply pay people). There's a series of relatively famous images of India's first rocket being brought on a fucking cycle to the launch pad.
Also, they used fucking a fucking bull to transport their first communication satellite
Now, for anyone with an inkling for space knows that this shit is repugnant, especially because this created the institutional backbone for how ISRO operates. Space contamination is basically something that is a big no-no and is of an even greater danger than in Antarctica. Why? Because it fucks up our capacity to conduct accurate research.
Assuming it is real:
-Going to the moon in 2023 doesn't matter, you gain no additional information, there is no science to be done, it's already all figured out. PR stunt.
-Their satellite didn't ever return, such a shit effort, while everyone else's did. Why go there just to land and do nothing? PR stunt.
-Entire technology they have to be able to do that, all because whites invented it first.
Yeah, the point is that it is a PR stunt. Lunar PR stunts are becoming all the more common, such as with Turkey and the UAE. They however are using other launch vehicles. Sending a payload to the Moon is not actually that hard per-se. The basic logic can easily be taught with something like KSP for the trajectory part. Sure, there's building the rocket but that's basically a known science and with a large population boost and with India's policy of exporting their population to accumulate knowledge + ideas (critical for economic development).
For countries like India, Turkey and the UAE prestige is basically everything. At least with India they're using their own launch vehicles, but even then many other countries basically have this capability and could land payloads on the Moon. Hell, we're at the point where commercial companies have this capacity.
And now we're at the point where India is pushing forward with their Human Space Flight ambitions. This is a rough rendering of their Space Station ambitions, which for those in the know will give Mir vibes.
For those in the know, Mir was the first modern modular Space Station and serves as the backbone of the know how of Space Station operations (know-how was transferred to China as well, and there's a lot of published articles on this). Shuttle-Mir developed basically a lot of the practices for how the ISS operates. One of the most important ones is space hygiene. Why? Because fungi loves space. Space is great for mould growth, it's great for Fungi. At one point, US astronauts ended up discovering a basket ball sized ball of water full of life and fungi just floating around. It's why Space Stations are cleaned so much and kept effectively spotless. This doesn't stop the growth of course, only mitigates it. It's still a problem on the ISS.
I dread to think what the condition of India's Space Station will be.
