NASA’s The Quiet Crew | Sriram Rallabhandi

In this episode of The Quiet Crew, you’ll meet the co-technical lead for the prediction and validation of tools for the Quesst mission. For Sriram Rallabhandi, when he isn’t working, his children are his first priority and that includes time spent together solving Rubik's Cubes, teaching them math or playing pickleball. He is part of the crew on a mission to transform aviation as NASA and communities in the U.S. work together to verify that the X-59’s quiet, supersonic design can turn a sonic boom into a sonic thump. This new technology, along with a potential change in regulations, will allow airliners to fly faster over land, cutting passenger travel time in half without disturbing people on the ground.

What is said in the film

My name is Sriram Rallabhandi I am the co-technical lead for the prediction and validation of tools for the Quesst mission my role is to engineer methods to be able to predict the sonic booms as well as try to reduce it to levels that are more acceptable to people on the ground I was born in India my parents still lived there I travel to India once a year and it would make a big impact if we could fly supersonic and cut the time of travel by half I was interested in math from childhood as I was growing up I always wanted to become an engineer it was always a dream to work for NASA during the pandemic one way to bond with my kids was through Rubik's Cubes as we figured it was something that we could do together I also love teaching my kids everything starts with my kids so I try to teach anything by example so math by example take a problem and try to record myself using couple of strategies in an easy to understand fashion one thing I love to do is get out and play sports another way for bonding with my kids is to pick up something that they can play which is why I play pickleball with them when the weather is good outside I am glad that I am on a team of great talented folks who are extremely motivated and willing to contribute in whatever way possible to make this a success when I see the X-59 fly for the first time I'd be extremely happy and it's a flood of emotions that will come so it will be something of an amazement and I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing that

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