The Second Indian-Born Woman To Fly Into Space, Sirisha Bandla Among Virgin Galactic’s Crew
- ByStartupStory | July 4, 2021
Second Indian-born woman to fly into space, Sirisha Bandla 34-year-old Sirisha is among the six-member crew of VSS Unity, Virgin Galactic’s suborbital rocket-powered space plane that includes the company’s founder Richard Branson.
This announcement was made on Thursday evening and its next test flight is scheduled on July 11 and that its founder will be among the six people on board. Among the other members of VSS Unity include pilots Dave Mackay and Michale Masucci,Chief Astronaut Instructor Beth Moses and Lead Operations Engineer Colin Bennet. The rocket ship will soar from New Mexico with the entire crew. Sirisha is the Vice-President Government Affairs and Research Operations wing of Virgin Galactic and its sister concern, Virgin Orbit.
Sirisha tweeted, “I am so incredibly honoured to be a part of the amazing crew of #Unity22, and to be a part of a company whose mission is to make space available to all,” her tweet read. As for her role Sirisha will evaluate the research experience with an experiment from the University of Florida, using several handheld fixation tubes. Sirisha Bandla will be the first person from Andhra Pradesh to fly to space. Born in Tenali, Guntur district, and brought up in Houston, Texas, She completed her aeronautical engineering at Purdue University and holds an MBA from George Washington University.
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