Sirisha Bandla

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Does Sirisha Bandla drink alcohol?: Yes.Sirisha Bandla is an American aeronautical engineer and astronaut who became the third Indian-origin woman to fly into space when she flew on Virgin Galactics first fully crewed suborbital test flight from New Mexico on July 11, 2021, along with British billionaire Richard Branson and four others.She grew up in a well-to-do family in Houston, Texas. Sirisha Bandla in childhood with her family.She is strong-willed since childhood.Her paternal grandfather, Bandla Ragaiah, was a principal scientist and professor at Acharya NG Ranga Agriculture University, Hyderabad. Sirisha Bandlas paternal grandfather.Sirishas maternal grandfather, Venkat Narasiah, is a former Chemistry professor. He lives at Tenali in the Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh.Sirisha was fond of flying from a very young age. She experienced flying along for the first time when she was just four years old. In an interview, while talking about it, her grandfather said, At the age of four, she traveled alone to the US where her parents and older sister lived. Though the person who accompanied her was known to us, he was a stranger to her. She was not scared to fly alone. She was excited. He further added, We dont know how she got interested in aircraft, stars, and skies. It has been in her since childhood. Whatever she has achieved today is on her own accord and her parents gave her full freedom to pursue her dream. She has proved her excellence and rose to the occasion..She began her career in 2007 as a Design, Test, and Analysis Co-operator at ATA Engineering and worked there for around three years.In 2011, Sirisha joined L-3 Communications Integrated Systems as a Mechanical Engineer.The following year, she became the Associate Director in the space policy department of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF), an industrial association of spaceflight companies. Sirisha Bandla posing with the XCOR X-Racer.