Leading this important mission was India's very own rocket woman, Ritu Karidhal Shrivastava. Ritu Karidhal is an ISRO scientist. She is the mission director of the Chandrayaan 3 mission. She is a native of Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow.
Dr Tessy Thomas also did a PhD in Missile Guidance from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad in 2014 and obtained MBA in Operations Management from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, in 2007.