Leading this Chandrayaan-3 mission was the main scientist, P. Veeramuthuvel, with Srikant serving as the mission director and Kalpana as the associate project director at ISRO. M. Sankaran served in the role of director, while S. Somanath held the position of chairman at ISRO. Among the team members was scientist Chayan Dutta from Assam. The mission targeted the Moon s South Pole, successfully achieving India s inaugural soft landing on the lunar surface.