Coimbatore, Dec 29: Highlighting the importance of
team effort, Chandrayaan-1 Project Director M Annadurai on Monday
said the success of the country`s maiden Moon mission was
symbolic of what India could be in future.
"It (Chandrayaan-1) demonstrated how India could get
along and lead a team of technical and scientific experts from
internationally reputed organisations to realise an ambitious
mission," he said while delivering an address at the Amrita
University here.
"Team spirit is the mantra for achieving something big,"
Annadurai told the students.
"Harmonising efforts of all team members towards a common
goal and realising the objective with an allotted budget and
schedule demonstrated how good the team has converted a very
difficult situation into a historic opportunity," he said.
The International Lunar Exploration Working Group`s
International Cooperation Award was given to ISRO
Chandrayaan-1
team, for the "challenging accommodation and tests" of the
most international lunar payload ever -- from 20 countries --
with the successful launch on the PSLV on Oct 22 and for the
successful lunar insertion on November 8, 2008, he said.
"If ISRO can achieve such a feat, why not other Indian
teams. As a team we can do wonders. It can be accomplished as
a team in all the fields, let it be in education, medicine,
industry, trade, commerce, press, electronic media, sports,
arts, service department and even in politics," Annadurai
said.
Interacting with engineering students in Madurai
yesterday, Chandrayaan-1 Project Director M Annadurai said the
ISRO has started working on Chandrayaan II.
Plans for Chandrayaan III were also underway, he said.
Chandrayaan II would land a small rover on the moon`s
surface, collect and analyse samples, while Chandrayaan III
envisages having a spacecraft land on the moon and bring back
samples from it to the Earth.
Noting that investment of Rs.386 crore was profitable, he
said that scientists from NASA, European space agency, Japan
and Bulgaria also worked with ISRO on Chandrayaan I mission.
Bureau Report
