1) Team Indus, a privately funded Indian organization, plans to land a robotic lunar rover on the moon's surface before the end of 2017. This would make India one of only four countries to soft land on the moon. 2) The mission, called HHK#1, involves launching on an ISRO rocket, orbiting the earth and moon, and then soft landing the rover near the Mare Imbrium crater to transmit photos and video back to Earth. 3) Success would inspire more private space initiatives in India and demonstrate that an Indian team can design, build, finance, and launch its own spacecraft from India to explore space. It could help spawn future Indian space