Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is all set to fly into space along with a team of people on July 20. Among the team of people who were involved in building the rocket that will launch Jeff Bezos into space is Sanjal Gavande.

Sanjal is a resident of Maharashtra, and the 30 year old is part of the team that built the rocket system, New Shepard, for Bezos's space exploration company Blue Origin.

Sanjal Gavande is the daughter of a municipal corporation employee who lives in Kolsewadi locality in Kalyan. She completed her mechanical engineering degree from the University of Mumbai and then went to Michigan Technological University in the US to pursue her Masters.

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While she was pursuing her course, she opted for aerospace as a subject in her curriculum.

Speaking to India Today, Sanjal Gavande’s parents said that their daughter achieved what she aimed for. Her father, Ashok Gavande 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. She worked with Mercury Marine after finishing her Masters at Wisconsin. Then she went to work with Toyota racing development at Orange City in California.”

He added, "She even got a commercial pilots license in the US. She wanted to join Blue Origin. She would look on the website and then apply whenever she saw some openings. After her application was approved, she cleared the interview and joined Blue Origin. We just supported her and she achieved everything on her own.”

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Sanjal’s mother said, "She was a silent girl since childhood and good in studies. She was also good in drawing and won many accolades, which helped her in mechanical design when she chose mechanical engineering."

She added,"People told us that she is a girl and why has she opted for mechanical engineering? I also thought sometimes about whether she would be able to handle such hard work. She has now made us all proud. She had a dream of designing aerospace rockets and she has achieved it.”

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