Will Bezos carry India-born Sanjal on shoulders after space flight?
Sanjal Gavande
New Delhi–Following the grand Richard Branson show where he carried Andhra Pradesh-born Sirisha Bandla and fellow space travellers on his shoulders after successfully flying to the edge of space, it is time for Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos to applaud Sanjal Gavande, one of the key engineers who designed the New Shephard rocket set to take Bezos and the crew to space on July 20.
Billionaire Bezos is set to fly to the edge of space aboard what is touted as the world’s first unpiloted suborbital flight.
Born in Kalyan, Maharashtra, Gavande is a systems engineer at Blue Origin who always dreamt of designing aerospace rockets.
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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.