A team, led from the front by brilliant women and men, have worked tirelessly for years to pull off the mission. The country's second visit to the moon has been made possible because of years of work by Muthayya Vanitha, who is the project director, and it will be navigated to the Moon by mission director Ritu Karidhal.

Muthayya Vanitha is an electronics system engineer and has the heavy burden of handling the mission. She was responsible for data handling systems for India's remote sensing satellites.

Muthayya Vanitha has spent 32 years at Isro.

Initially Vanitha was reluctant to accept the responsibility. However, M Annadurai, the project director of Chandrayaan-1 did not falter in his persistence.

He believed that she has excellent problem-solving skills and team management capabilities and handed her the responsibility. Ritu Karidhal, the mission director of Chandrayaan-2 was the Deputy Operations Director for the Mars mission.

Karidhal has a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. She is responsible for the spacecraft's outward autonomy system. Karidhal is also known as the 'rocket woman' of India.

Ritu Karidhal, an aerospace engineer, has spent 22 years at India's apex space body.

She has received the Isro Team Award for MOM, Women Achievers in Aerospace, among other accolades. Both the women have two decades of experience.

They also share another common thing between them - they both have gruelling work hours. Not only that, 30 per cent of the members working on the Chandrayaan-2 mission are women, as mentioned by K Sivan, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation.

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