Who is Sirisha, the India-born woman to fly to space with billionaire Branson?

Sirisha Bandla, who was born in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur and grew up in the US, will become the only second India-born woman astronaut to travel to space after late Kalpana Chawla on July 11. She's one of the astronauts flying with billionaire Richard Branson on Virgin Galactic's first fully-crewed rocket-powered test flight. She graduated in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University.

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