Miss Oregon USA is headed to space. Manju Bangalore recently spoke with Fox News Digital about her lifelong dream to become an astronaut, saying she has "wanted to be an astronaut since [she] was 4 years old" and heard about Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian woman to go to space.
She is now one step closer to achieving her goal. "I got selected by a company called ZERO-G, and they've been in operations for almost 20 years, and they are bringing me on as the first Miss USA State queen to do a zero gravity flight.
So I'm going to be bringing the sash, my crown, and floating in weightlessness on their flight," she said. "I'm really excited because this is part of their influencer program, and so I'm going to be one of their first influencers to also do this." The flight will take place on Aug.
19 in Oakland, California. Bangalore explained to Fox News Digital that this is one of two ways to experience zero gravity – the other way being in a modified aircraft here on Earth.
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