08
Sep
Bengaluru: Echoing Indian space agency Chairman K. Sivan's hunch on the descent of lander Vikram being terrifying, a space expert on Sunday said its hard landing on the moon at a tilted angle could have snapped the communication link with the mission control here, 3.84 lakh km away."The contact has been lost because Vikram would have hit the moon's surface hard at high speed and tumbled over rather than landing softly on its four legs as intended," former Space Commission member Roddam Narasimha told IANS. Though the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is yet to affirm what could have snapped the…