Chandrayaan-3: Meet the people behind India's lunar mission

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ISRO Chairman, S Somanath: ISRO Chairman S Somanath assumed leadership of ISRO in January 2022 and became a pivotal figure in India's ambitious moon mission. Prior to this role, he had served as the director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) and the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre. Both of these are primary centres responsible for developing rocket technologies for ISRO.

Missions like Chandrayaan-3, Aditya-L1 (a mission to study the Sun), and Gaganyaan (India's first manned mission) are being overseeen by him. He is an expert in the area of system engineering of launch vehicles and his contributions in PSLV and GSLV MkIII were in their overall architecture, propulsion stages design, structural and structural dynamics designs, separation systems, vehicle integration, and integration procedures development. Chandrayaan-3 Project Director, P Veeramuthuvel: P Veeramuthuvel took charge as the Project Director of Chandrayaan-3 in 2019.Aged about 46 years, he hails from a small family in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram district, Ph.D holder Veeramuthuvel is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

He succeeds Vanitha who was the project director of Chandrayaan-2 mission under the leadership of former ISRO Chief K Sivan. Before this, he had held the position of Deputy Director at the Space Infrastructure Programme Office at ISRO's main office. Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), S Unnikrishnan Nair: S Unnikrishnan Nair is the Director of VSSC which is located in Thumba, Kerala.