Houston: Aeronautical engineer Sirisha Bandla became the third Indian-origin woman to fly into space when she joined British billionaire Richard Branson on Virgin Galactic’s first fully crewed suborbital test flight from New Mexico.
“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,” she had tweeted, a few days before the take-off.
Bandla has become the third Indian-origin woman into fly to space after astronauts Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams.
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