Kalpana Kalahasti who was the deputy project director for the Chandrayaan-3 mission was born in Bengaluru, Karnataka, and graduated from IIT-Kharagpur with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering.
A senior scientist named Dr Sankarasubramanian K is the Principal Scientist for the Aditya-L1 Mission. Nikarshaji is a woman scientist from Sengottai, Tenkasi district, who is working as the Aditya L-1 Project Director.
S Somanath, Secretary, of the Department of Space and Chairperson, was the leading man behind the success of Chandrayaan 3 along with P Veeramuthuvel, the Project Director of Chandrayaan 3, and Kalpana Kalahasti who was the deputy project director for Chandrayaan-3 mission.
Scientists at ISRO such as S Somanath, P Veeramuthuvel, and Kalpana Kalahasti, who are behind Chandrayaan 3's success have also studied at respectable institutions such as IIT Kharagpur, IISc Bangalore, etc.
S Somnath, Secretary, Department of Space and Chairperson, Space Commission completed his BTech from TKM College of Engineering, Kollam in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.