After India-born Kalpana Chawla, another Indian daughter is going to create history. Sirisha Bandla, a resident of Andhra Pradesh, is going on a dangerous journey of space with famous billionaire Richard Brenson.
Washington. Virgin Galactic’s owner and famous industrialist Richard Branson will leave for space on July 11 to travel to space. During this, Sirisha Bandla of Indian origin is also going with her. Sirisha Bandla is an officer associated with government affairs and research at Virgin Galactic Company. 5 other passengers are going to space with Richard. India-born Sirisha is the second woman who is going on a dangerous journey of space. Sirisha Bandla hails from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. Sirisha Bandla will be the second Indian-origin woman to travel to space. Earlier, Kalpana Chawla had gone to space and unfortunately she died in the space shuttle Columbia accident. Sirisha Bandla joined Virgin in the year 2015 and after that she did not look back.
Sirisha Bandla also oversees Virgin Orbit’s Washington operations. The same company recently launched a satellite into space with the help of Boeing 747 plane, which he has done MBA from Georgetown University. After Kalpana Chawla, Sirisha is the second Indian-born woman who is going to step into space. Rakesh Sharma was the first to go to space from India’s side. After this Kalpana Chawla went. At the same time, Sunita Williams of Indian origin also stepped into space. Let us tell you that Richard Branson of American spacecraft company Virgin Galactic is planning to go on a space trip nine days before his fellow billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos.
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Brenson’s company announced on Thursday evening that its next space flight will be on July 11 and six people including its founder will take that flight will be part. This spacecraft will take off from New Mexico in which all the crew members will be employees of the company. This will be the fourth space flight for Virgin Galactic. A few hours before this news, Bezos’s company Blue Origin said that Bezos will go to space on July 20 and will be accompanied by a leading lady of the aerospace world who has waited 60 years to go there.
