Hyderabad, July 3 -- In a rare instance of pride, a Telugu woman is all set to take a journey to outer space as Virgin Group's space mission is to take off in less than ten days.

The company is launching Virgin Galactic, test spaceflight on July 11 in which Guntur-born Sirisha Bandla is a part of a six-member crew. Sirisha is to create history as she becomes the second Indian-born woman to go into space after Kalpana Chawla, who died in the tragic Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

Sirisha has been working for Virgin Galactic since 2015 as a government affairs manager and has risen through the ranks since then. She has also been handling Washington operations for Virgin Orbit which recently sent out a satellite in space using a 747 plane....