"Chandrayan3's Historic Triumph: India's Milestone Journey to Moon's South Pole and ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization's Strategic Success"

India witnessed a proud moment as it became the first nation to achieve a soft landing on the Moon's south polar region with the six-wheeled land and rover module of Chandrayaan-3 and made history. Starting with a mission of exploring the South Polar Region of the moon, Chandrayaan-2 was launched in 2019, which finally gave way to the success of Chandrayaan-3 on 23rd August 2023. All these missions had similar goals – to enrich India's space data repository by capturing images and videos crucial for studying and analysing life on the moon.Strategic planning and changes in designs as per technology, effective procurement and utilisation of resources, calculated risk-taking, enhanced safety measures and reduced technical inefficiencies are all the measures ISRO undertook to make this mission a grand success while keeping in check the stringent budget constraints. Learning from past mistakes of CH-2 and making appropriate changes in designs and techniques has been a significant driver of success. According to ISRO Chairperson S. Somanath, their design strategy changed from a success-based design in?CH-2 to a failure-based design for CH-3 —looking at what can go wrong and how to deal with it.Indigenous manufacturing and procuring low-cost domestic parts helped curb the expenses within the limited budget. As rightly pointed out by journalist Cindy Pom, CH-2's budget of $75mn was less than half of the budget for the Hollywood sci-fi movie Interstellar ($165mn). It is commendable how India set out to create history even with such a budget, even less than CH-2's $96mn. The mission received investments from firms like L&T, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), MIDHANI and Hindustan Aviation Limited (HAL), which have seen sharp rise in share prices due to the success of CH-3.Over 1000 engineers and scientists, including women who took lead roles in multiple departments, worked together to make this dream a huge success reality under the knowledgeable leadership of Dr P Veeramuthuvel and Associate Directorship of Smt. K Kalpana. Over 100 women staff have played a significant role in conceptualising, designing, realising, testing and executing CH-3.The fruits of all these efforts are right before us as we walk with our heads held high, becoming the first-ever nation to crack the code to achieve a joint worldwide mission that the globe has been scrambling over.