Announcing the historic landing of NASA's Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars amid a thunderous applause at the NASA headquarters was Dr Swati Mohan, an Indian-American who spearheaded the development of attitude control and the landing system for the rover. As the world waited with baited breathes for news on Perseverance's dramatic landing, a calm and composed bindi-clad Dr Mohan announced the big news to the world. Dr Swati Mohan, who is a PhD from MIT in Aeronautics & Astronautics, has also been a part of various important missions of NASA.