Meet Sanjal Gavande, the Marathi engineer who’s part of Jeff Bezos’ space travel project

 (July 19, 2021; 3 pm) The space tourism race is truly heating up: Come July 20, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will take off on board Blue Origin’s rocket system New Shepard. All eyes are now set on the Indian systems engineer at the commercial space flight company who’s part of the team that built the rocket – 30-year-old Sanjal Gavande.  

Maharashtra-born Gavande, who had earlier worked for marine and racing companies, has been part of the team that built the New Shepard rocket system that will take Bezos and three others to space. She told Times of India, “I am really happy that my childhood dream is about to come true. I am proud to be a part of Team Blue Origin.” The launch of the vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing suborbital launch vehicle is considered a milestone in space tourism. 

As Jeff Bezos prepares for his space flight, all eyes are on Sanjal Gavande the Indian systems engineer from the team that built the rocket

Sanjal Gavande

From Mumbai to Space 

Born in a Maharashtrian family in Kalyan near Mumbai, Gavande graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Mumbai University. She moved to the US to pursue her Masters from Michigan Technological University in 2012, where she opted for aerospace. Her father Ashok is a retired municipal corporation employee and mother Surekha a retired MTNL official; the family continues to live in Kalyan. In an interview with India Today, Ashok said, “She always wanted to build a spaceship and that is the reason she chose aerospace as a subject while pursuing her master’s degree at Michigan Technological University.” 

After her Masters, Gavande worked with Mercury Marine in Wisconsin for about four years before joining Toyota Racing Development in California as a mechanical design engineer. While working, she decided to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a pilot and began taking flying lessons over the weekends. In 2016 she finally got her pilot’s license. Given her interest in all things space, Gavande had also applied for a space engineering job at NASA but her application was rejected due to citizenship issues.  Read More

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