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I was there along with the project Similarly, we have so many men
director of the Chandrayaan-3, and women working across the
Dr. P Veeramuthuvel. There are centres as part of the team — all
four critical phases — rough are Shakti and Shiva actually. I
breaking, altitude holder followed think this is a beautiful name to
by fine breaking and the terminal represent equal contribution by
face. Crossing each phase was men and women, particularly in
a sigh of relief. Particularly, when this project.
we saw some critical phases like Apart from the scientific
the altitude hold phase and the and engineering background,
most important hovering phase there are so many women
when the Lander was hovering from various other fields
and the velocity was killed, you like administration, finance,
could hear everyone from our fabrications and many other
team applaud (in the Mission fields who have contributed a lot
Control Room). Ultimately, when to this project. These are tough
we touched down is when we felt moments at work but we have
that we had finally done it. to handle it with a calm mind.
The Prime Minister named And this is where family support
the landing point as Shiv plays a main role. They are our
Shakti. Our chairman said it strength. At our office we have
is rightly coined because the our team, our seniors supporting.
project director is Shiva and the But family plays a major role in
associate project director Shakti. balancing these together.

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