Sirisha Bandla

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Sirisha Bandla is an Indian American aeronautical engineer and commercial astronaut. She is the Vice President of Government Affairs and Research Operations for Virgin Galactic. She flew on the Virgin Galactic Unity 22 mission which made her the second India-born woman to go to space and the fourth person of Indian descent ever to go past the line of space after Rakesh Sharma, Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams.

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aerospace engineer, private astronaut, astronaut, 

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  • Unity 22
    2021 crewed suborbital spaceflight
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