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Happy Birthday Mylswamy Annadurai : Everything You Need to Know About the Indian Moon Man

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Myl­swamy Annadu­rai is a renowned Indi­an sci­en­tist known as the “Moon Man of India”. He has worked at the Indi­an Space Research Orga­ni­za­tion (ISRO) for 36 years. He will be 64 years old on July 2nd.

He was project leader of Chandrayaan‑1, Indi­a’s first mis­sion to the moon, which advanced Indi­a’s space pro­gram. He also served as pro­gram direc­tor of Chandrayaan‑2 and Mars Orbiter Mis­sion or Mangalyaan.

Here’s every­thing you need to know about the “Moon­man of India”.

Ear­ly life

Myl­swamy Annadu­rai was born on July 2, 1958 in the vil­lage of Kod­hawady near Pol­lachi in the Coim­bat­ore dis­trict of Tamil Nadu.

After ear­ly edu­ca­tion in his native vil­lage, Annadu­rai earned a bach­e­lor’s degree in engi­neer­ing and grad­u­at­ed from the Gov­ern­ment Col­lege of Engi­neer­ing in Coim­bat­ore, Tamil Nadu. Lat­er in 1982 he received a Mas­ters degree from the PSG Col­lege of Tech­nol­o­gy in Coimbatore.

years at ISRO

Myl­swamy Annadu­rai joined ISRO in 1982. He served as space­craft oper­a­tions man­ag­er for the Indi­an Remote Sens­ing (IRS)-1A, IRS-1B and Indi­an Nation­al Satel­lite Sys­tem (INSAT)-2A and 2B satel­lite pro­grams. He then served as deputy project man­ag­er for some pro­grams and was lat­er pro­mot­ed to mis­sion man­ag­er for the INSAT-2C, INSAT-2D, 2E, 3B, 3E and GSAT (Geo­syn­chro­nous Satellite)-1 space programs.

How he became the Moon Man of India

In 2004 Annadu­rai was direc­tor of the Indi­an lunar probes Chandrayaan‑1 and Chandrayaan‑2.

Chandrayaan‑1, Indi­a’s first lunar mis­sion, was launched on Octo­ber 22, 2008 from Sri­hariko­ta Island. It car­ried 11 sci­en­tif­ic instru­ments from India and sev­er­al oth­er coun­tries, and the mis­sion’s esti­mat­ed lifes­pan was two years. The ship entered lunar orbit on Novem­ber 8 and on Novem­ber 14 the Moon Impact Probe was released, which impact­ed near the lunar south pole and made the mis­sion a suc­cess. Lat­er, Annadu­rai also served as project man­ag­er of Indi­a’s sec­ond suc­cess­ful lunar mis­sion, Chandrayaan‑2, earn­ing him the title of “Moon­man of India”.

Oth­er projects and works

Annadu­rai man­aged sev­er­al ISRO satel­lite projects, but his most famous post was the pro­gram direc­tor of the Mars Orbiter Mis­sion, also known as the Man­galyaan Mis­sion. It was launched in Novem­ber 2013 and suc­cess­ful­ly entered Mars orbit in Sep­tem­ber 2014.

With the suc­cess of this project, ISRO became the fourth space agency to launch a suc­cess­ful Mars mis­sion, after NASA, the Russ­ian Fed­er­al Space Agency and the Euro­pean Space Agency.

In addi­tion to her work at ISRO, Annadu­rai also wrote a pop­u­lar sci­ence col­umn for the Tamil news­pa­per Kungu­mam and lec­tured on sci­ence to encour­age young Indi­ans to pur­sue sci­en­tif­ic careers.

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