S. Vanajah

{{Short description|Malaysian engineer (born 1971)}}

Siva Vanajah (born March 2, 1971, in Kulim, Malaysia){{Cite news|url=https://www.malaysiakini.com/rentakini/59694|title=Close but not close enough for Vanajah|last=Kabilan|first=K|date=17 Nov 2006|work=malaysiakini|access-date=8 Oct 2019}} is a Malaysian engineer and one of the finalist of the Malaysian Angkasawan program, a program to send a Malaysian to the International Space Station.{{cite web|url=http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/candidates/english/siva_vanajah.htm|title=Biographies of Astronaut and Cosmonaut Candidates: S. Vanajah A/P Siva Subramaniam|website=Spacefacts.de|access-date=9 March 2019}} An ethnic Indian, she was the only woman among four finalists who outlasted 11,000 other Malaysians that applied for the astronaut selection process in 2003, ultimately losing her bid to Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor and Faiz Khaleed.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/online/337/the-first-malaysian-space|title=The first Malaysian in space|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423065106/http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/online/337/the-first-malaysian-space|archive-date=2012-04-23|access-date=2012-09-08}} All the four finalists were sent to Moscow for training by the Russian Space Agency.{{Cite news|url=https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/56265|title=M'sian astronaut: Docs make the cut|date=4 Sep 2006|work=malaysiakini|access-date=8 Oct 2019}}