Who Is Ritu Karidhal Srivastava, Her Role in the Chandrayaan-3 Moon Mission: What You Need to Know

The Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO) learned from their experiences after the failure
of Chandrayaan-2 in 2019 and are better prepared for today’s moon mission from
the Satish Dhawan space complex in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The space
agency has been preparing for the ‘great leap’ for three years. If the landing
goes as planned, India will join the United States, Russia, and China as the
only other nations to accomplish this amazing achievement.

Read also this: Chandrayaan-3 launched on time from Sriharikota’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre.

While men are in charge
of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, many women are contributing to the effort, in
contrast to the Chandrayaan-2 mission. About 54 women engineers and scientists
played key roles in the Chandrayaan-3 project. They work in diverse locations
as associate and deputy project directors and project managers for a wide range
of systems.

The mission is being
led by Dr. Ritu Karidhal Srivastava, a prominent scientist of ISRO. Learn all
about her here!

• Indian Space Research Organisation
  (ISRO) prominent scientist Ritu Karidhal Srivastava. Her fame stems from her
  crucial involvement in the accomplishment of the Mars Orbiter Mission.
• She has an MPhil in Physics from the
  University of Cambridge and an MTech in Technology from the Indian Institute of
  Science in Bengaluru.
• She had an early fascination with outer
  space. In her youth, she spent her time collecting articles about ISRO and NASA’s
  space programmes.
• In the month of November of 1997, she
  started working for ISRO. She has been an integral part of many of ISRO’s most
  important space missions to date. She has extensive experience in the role of
  operations director.
• She has published over twenty papers in
  both foreign and domestic journals. Ritu Karidhal, who also played a pivotal
  role in India’s Mars mission, is known as the Rocket Woman of India. She was in
  charge of the Mars mission as the project’s second in command.
• In 2007, she received the ISRO Young
  Scientist Award from the late President of India, DR. APJ Abdul Kalam. She has
  also given a TED talk, in which she discussed the Mars Orbiter Mission.