New Shepard built by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin is the rocket that will be launching the first unpiloted civilian spaceflight. Sanjal Gavande from Maharashtra, India is part of Blue Origin’s team that built a rocket that’s going to make history.
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Gavande is daughter of a retired municipal corporation officer from Kalyan in Maharashtra, and her mother is a retired Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) employee. She studied Mechanical engineering at University of Mumbai and continued to pursue mechanical engineering at Michigan Techoligical University. Priod to joined she was working at race car and marine companies, then applied to NASA. Being rejected in NASA because of citizenship issues, later joined Blue Origin.