Meet Sirisha Bandla, The Second Indian Women To Fly Into Space

Meet Sirisha Bandla, The Second Indian Women To Fly Into Space

Sirisha Bandla is an Indian who is presently living in America. She is going to become the secondhh, Indian-borne Space flyer.

The Indian American girl is all set to become the second Indian-borne woman in space.

Sirisha Bandla To Become Second Indian Woman To Go Into Space

Sirisha Bandla is soon going to fly into space with Richard Branson who is the founder of Virgin Galactic’s billionaire on July 11. This space travel by Sirisha and Richard will be accompanied by 4 other people and is planned for the 11th of July 2021. This travel news was announced on Friday.

After 9 days of this travel by Richardson Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon will be traveling to space with Wally Funk. Wally has been trying hard for the past 60 years to fly in space, finally, her dream is coming true.

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Sirisha Bandla Family And Birth Place

Sirisha Bandla is an Indian who lives in America, she hails from the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, India. Her childhood days were spent in Houston, Texas as her parents soon after her birth shifted to America. After Kalpana Chawal, Sirisha is the second woman born in India to fly in space.

Bandla wrote in the tweet that she is feeling incredibly honored after being a part of #Unity22. The mission of the company for which Sirisha is traveling is to make space travel available to all people. She is going to be a researcher in this program.

Sirisha Bandla Education, Father And Career

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Sirisha has studied aeronautical engineering at the Purdue University. This young girl is going to be the fourth Indian to fly into space. The first one was Rakesh Sharma, after Rakesh Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Lyn Williams traveled to space from India. Andhra Pradesh government is quite happy after the announcement of Bandla’s travel to space.

Bandla began working for Virgin Galactic back in the year 2015; today she holds the position of vice president of government operations and research in the company. This aeronautical engineer’s father studied Agricultural science initially and then moved to the United States to seek good career opportunities. Her father works for the US Embassy in India. Sirisha considers her father the biggest source of inspiration in her life. 

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