Kalpana Chawla
American astronaut · India · Lived 1962 to 2003 · aged 40
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Something wrong?Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. Chawla expressed an interest in aerospace engineering from an early age and took engineering classes at Dayal Singh College and Punjab Engineering College in India.
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Chawla and her husband before the launch of STS-87
The crew of STS-87 in September 1997. From left to right - in orange: Chawla, Lindsey, Kregel, Kadeniuk; in white: Scott, Doi
Deployment of the Spartan
The crew of STS-107 in October 2001. From left to right: Brown, Husband, Clark, Chawla, Anderson, McCool, Ramon
Kalpana Chawla Hall, University of Texas ArlingtonAwards
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Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. Chawla expressed an interest in aerospace engineering from an early age and took engineering classes at Dayal Singh College and Punjab Engineering College in India. She then traveled to the United States, where she earned her MSc and PhD, becoming a naturalized United States citizen in the early 1990s.
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