Born in India, Sanjal Gavande, is one of the brains behind Jeff Bezos' space rocket Blue Origin's 'New Shephard' that will take a suborbital sightseeing trip on July 20.
The 30-year-old engineer from Maharashtra, Sanjal Gavande, is one of the engineers who helped build Jeff Bezos’ space rocket.
Sanjal grew up in Maharashtra's Kalyan, she is the daughter of a municipal corporation employee and a retired MTNL official.
Sanjal graduated from the University of Mumbai and shifted to the US in 2011 to pursue her master’s degree in mechanical engineering. During her Masters, she opted for aerospace as a subject and cleared it with a first-class.
After working for Mercury Marine and Toyota Racing Development, she went on and applied for a position of space engineer at NASA but was not selected due to citizenship issues. However, she later joined Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin as a systems engineer at the beginning of April this year.
American billionaire and world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, along with his crew is all set to fly to space on July 20, launching aboard a rocket and capsule developed by Blue Origin, the Amazon founder's private space company.
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