Somanath, the current Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), will take over for K Sivan, who will finish his extended stint on Friday.
For the first time, a lunar lander technology evaluated the spectral reflectance of regolith and rock and discovered water on the spot.
When completed, China will be the only country with its space station, as Russia's International Space Station (ISS) is a joint effort involving multiple countries.
The reactor holds the record for maintaining temperatures five times hotter than our sun for more than 17 minutes (or at least according to Chinese state media).
The James Webb Space Telescope will not orbit the Earth like the Hubble Space Telescope; instead, it will orbit the Sun 1.5 million kilometres (1 million miles) distant at the second Lagrange point, or L2.
The launch, which is slated for 9:20 a.m. (12:20 GMT), will send the telescope on a month-long trek to its distant orbit.
The Dragon will stay at the Space Station for a month before returning to Earth with goods and experiments done in zero gravity.
Yusaku flew to the International Space Station on a Soyuz spacecraft for a 12-day mission. The spaceship was transporting a special cargo from Uber Eats, a brown bag containing canned Japanese delicacies, in addition to the Japanese millionaire.
Musk, the chairman and chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., unveiled the project on December 13, soon after being selected TIME magazine's Person of the Year.
TIME magazine described Elon Musk as the world's richest man, saying that he does not own a home and has recently started selling off his money.
