Hailed as India’s ‘Rocket Women’, ISRO scientists Muthayya Vanitha and Ritu Karidhal have made the nation proud after they spearheaded the prestigious Chandrayaan-2 Mission to the Moon. As the nation ...

Muthayya Vanitha and Ritu Karidhal Srivastava shot to fame last year as they became role models for youngsters in India—and girls in particular—aspiring to careers in science and technology, with a ...

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ISRO scientist Ritu Karidhal and electronics system engineer Muthayya Vanitha, both in their 40s, will be leading the Moon Mission’s main components Chandrayaan 2: India’s second quest to the Moon ...

Let’s talk about girl power, specifically in India. For the first time in history, two Indian female scientists are helming a space mission, Chandrayaan-2. Vanitha Muthayya is the project director and ...

You may not always associate young girls with space related activities in most places. But Ritu Karidhal Srivastava has been steeped in it for over two decades, as a scientist at the Indian Space ...

As the Vikram Lander will touchdown the lunar surface during the wee hours of Saturday, ISRO will prove its mettle in the space science. All credit goes to the great minds behind the moon mission who ...

It is well-known that STEM fields have a highly skewed gender ratio, and women trying to break the glass ceiling in such spaces are often dismissed as trying to do what people call a “man’s job”. That ...

Muthayya Vanitha has spent 32 years at ISRO. As Chandrayaan-2 blasted off on Monday, there was more than just rocket fuel that powered India's most ambitious and complex space mission. A team, led ...

Chandrayaan 2, India's most ambitious space mission yet, had hoped to make history at around 1.55 am on Saturday, when lunar lander Vikram was scheduled to soft land near the south pole of the moon.

Muthayya Vanitha and Ritu Karidhal will be proud when the lander onboard India’s second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 lands on Moon’s south pole. Muthayya is the director responsible for the Indian Space ...