Dr. Shawna Pandya, a neurosurgeon working as a general physician at Canada’s Alberta University Hospital will become the third Indian-origin women to fly to space. The 32-year-old was one of the two candidates shortlisted from 3200 people after the CSA program and the space mission is slated to take off by 2018. Kalpana Chawla and Sunitha Williams are the two other Indian-origin women to fly into space before Pandya.