A 30-year-old woman from Maharashtra is part of the team of engineers that built blue Origin’s suborbital space rocket New Shephard, which will carry Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and three others to space on July 20. A systems engineer at the spaceflight services company, Sanjal Gavande was born in Kalyan and dreamed of building a spaceship even as a child.
After completing her bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mumbai, Sanjal Gavande left for the US to pursue a master’s in mechanical engineering at Michigan Technological University.
“I am really happy that my childhood dream is about to come true. I am proud to be a part of Team Blue Origin, Ms Gavande told Times of India over a phone call from the US.
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