Chennai, July 13
A good measure of women’s power is powering Chandrayaan-2 with the Project Director and the Mission Director also being women.
“Nearly 30 per cent of the members working on the Chandrayaan-2 mission will be women,” K Sivan, Chairman, ISRO, had told the media earlier.
The Project Director is M Vanitha, an electronics systems engineer, shouldering the entire responsibility of the Chandrayaan-2. Initially Vanitha, who was responsible for data handling systems for India’s remote sensing satellites, was reluctant to accept the historical responsibility. However, at the persuasion of M Annadurai, then Director, ISRO Satellite Centre, she agreed.
On the other hand, Mission Director Ritu Karidhal, a Master’s degree holder in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, was the Deputy Operations Director for the Mars mission.
Several attempts to reach out to them went in vain. “We are not authorised to speak to the media. Sorry,” Karidhal politely said. — IANS
First attempt
- Chandrayaan-1, India’s maiden unmanned moon mission, was announced by late PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee on the 56th Independence Day in 2003
- The spacecraft was launched successfully on October 22, 2008. Though the mission was cut short by more than a year against the tenure of two years, it was termed a success by ISRO
- The mission gave the existence of water and ice on the moon's surface
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