Sirisha Bandla, the Indian-origin aeronautical engineer aboard the Virgin Galactic fully crewed spaceflight will be activating a NASA-supported plant experiment at critical data-collection stages during the flight. According to NASA, Bandla, the second India-born woman to fly to space, will be operating the experiment on the “Unity 22” flight on behalf of co-investigators from the University of Florida. Although researchers …
After Kalpana Chawla, Indian-origin Sirisha Bandla will become the second Indian-born woman to fly into space later this month. Bandla will be one of the six space travellers aboard ‘VSS Unity’ of Virgin Galactic, scheduled to blast off to space on July 11 from New Mexico. The spaceflight will make the 34-year-old aeronautical engineer, who graduated from Purdue University, the …
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