mission included a lunar orbiter and an impactor. India launched the spacecraft by a modified version of the PSLV C11 on 22 October 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh about 80 km north of Chennai at 06:22 IST (00:52 UTC). The mission was a major boost to India's space program, and India joined a band of Asian nations (China and Japan) in exploring the Moon. The vehicle was successfully inserted into lunar orbit on 8 November 2008. During the period 2004–2008, as the project director for Chandrayaan I, he led a team of engineers and scientists that designed and developed the project to carry instrumentation from ISRO and from NASA, ESA, and Bulgaria to accomplish simultaneous chemical, mineralogical, resource and topographic mapping of the entire lunar surface at high spatial and spectral resolutions. The project was realised within the time frame stipulated and the budget granted. He has paved the way for the future of Indian planetary missions and set an example for the international co-operation bringing the reputed international organisations like NASA, ESA, JAXA to work under the leadership of ISRO. Chandrayaan I has received many national and international awards including, the coveted Space Pioneers award for science and engineering at 28th International conference on Space development, in Florida USA in 2009. Director, ISRO Satellite Centre 2015 to 2018 Annadurai was heading ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore as director. The centre is responsible for building state of the art satellites for communication, remote sensing, navigation, space science and interplanetary missions.In his tenure as Director of the centre he has overseen making, launching and operationalisation of 30 state of the art satellites Post retirement from ISRO In 2019 Mylswamy Annadurai has been appointed as vice president for Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology. In the same year he has been also nominated as chairman, Board of Governors, National Design and Research Forum(NDRF) He uses both the positions effectively for the development of science and technology both at the state and national level, starting from science out reach at school level to guiding some high end collaborative research of social relevance by bringing together research labs, academia, industry and policy makers, Films In the movie Mission Mangal based on India's Mars mission, the character of Akshay Kumar is inspired from Annadurai In the feature film Chandrayaan based on India's first Moon mission Chandrayaan-1 directed and