Bandla, a 34-year-old aeronautical engineer on Sunday joined British billionaire Richard Branson and four others on board for space
Bandla, born in the Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh will head to space as part of Virgin Galactic’s first fully crewed flight test.
Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are going head to head in the space tourism race as both billionaires are hitching a ride to space.
The announcement puts Branson, rather than Bezos, in position to become the first billionaire to travel to space aboard a spacecraft he helped fund.
Blue Origin said Bezos and his brother Mark will travel on the first crewed flight of the company's New Shepard capsule