Chandrayaan 3 went to the Moon’s South Pole and made everyone in India super happy! But don’t forget the cool people who helped it. Let’s meet amazing women scientists who did really great things for the Moon Mission. Super Women Scientists and Chandrayaan 3
Moon Mission: So Awesome!
Meet the Moon Team: A magical thing happened on August 23, 2023. People from ISRO used their smarts to make Chandrayaan 3’s Vikram Lander land on the Moon’s South Pole softly.
India was the first to explore this part of the Moon, and it happened because of Intelligent people. Chandrayaan 3 was not done in one day. Lots of people worked for a long time and used 615 crore rupees to do it.
This is the story of an amazing scientific team that served as leaders for the Moon Mission and made all Indians very proud.
But this time, our Indian Scientific Women are heavily involved in this extraordinary project, and they are all an inspiration to the rest of the globe.
Let’s have a look at some of them :
- Dr. VR Lalithambika: Head Scientist of Gaganyaan
Dr. VR Lalithambika came from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She’s really good at space stuff. She led the ‘Gaganyaan’ mission to send Indian astronauts to space by 2022. She got an award because she’s super good at making rockets.
An expert in Advanced Launcher Technologies was in charge of the Gaganyaan mission, which aimed to launch Indian astronauts into space by 2022. She did more than 100 missions at ISRO. Before ISRO,
She worked at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), where she helped with controlling and guiding.
- Dr. Ritu Karidhal Srivastava
Making Chandrayaan-3 a Reality, Ritu Karidhal is an ISRO scientist and aeronautical engineer who joined the organization in 1997. She was also the Deputy Operations Director for India’s Mangalyaan Mars orbital project.
She was nicknamed “one of India’s Rocket Women” and contributed greatly to Mangalyaan’s success. She confirmed that the spacecraft could move independently in space. She was given an important task in 2021 to ensure that everyone at ISRO is treated equally. In 2007, she received an honor from then-President APJ Abdul Kalam.
- Nandini Harinath
Nandini Harinath worked with ISRO for over 20 years. She started there and stayed for a long time. In 20 years, she helped with more than 14 missions.
Remember the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)? Nandini Harinath, also called Mangalyaan, was significant for it. Right now, she’s in charge of projects and helps make plans.
- Minal Sampath
Minal, a Rajkot-based Systems Engineer, worked as a mechanical engineer on the Mars missions. ISRO awarded her the Young Scientist Merit Award in 2007.
- Tessy Thomas
Tessy Thomas, dubbed the “Missile Woman,” was the first woman in India to lead a missile project. She was the Project Director of the Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO) Agni-IV missile program.
- Vanitha Muthayya
Leader of Chandrayaan-2 Project Vanitha Muthayya worked at ISRO for almost 30 years. She’s super important there, leading projects about satellites. She led Chandrayaan-2 and helped Mangalyaan.
When she started at ISRO, she was a junior engineer who tested things. She’s the first woman to lead a big project at ISRO and the first woman to lead a mission to another planet. In 2006, she got a special award for being a great scientist.
- Anuradha TK
The First Woman Satellite Project Manager, Anuradha TK knows a lot about communication satellites. She worked at ISRO for about 34 years before she stopped. In an old talk, she said ISRO treats everyone the same, no matter if they’re a boy or a girl.
She was in charge of projects and made sure three communication satellites, GSAT-9, GSAT-17, and GSAT-18, went up okay.
- Moumita Dutta
Part of Chandrayaan-3 and Mangalyaan Teams, Moumita Dutta is good at making things that can see light. She’s a physicist who helped with the Mars mission (MOM). She knew about Chandrayaan when she was small and wanted to work with ISRO.
Right now, she’s working on making small gas sensors and helping with ‘Make in India’ ideas. After the Mars mission did well, she got a special award from ISRO.
- N.Valarmathi
RISAT-1, India’s first indigenously constructed Radar Imaging Satellite, is led by N. Valarmathi. She has participated in a number of missions, including Insat 2A, IRS IC, IRS ID, and TES.
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