Kalpana Chawla (17march 1962 -1 February 2003)
Chawla was born in karnal India. She completed her earlier schooling at Tagore Baal Niketan Senior Secondary School karnal . She is the first Indian -born woman and the second person in space from this sub-continent.After gradating in Aeronautical college india in 1982,Chawla moved to the umited states the same year.She obtained her Master s degree in Aerospace Engineering from thr University of Texas in 1984.Later she did her PH.D in Acrospace Engineering in 1988 from the University of Colordo.
Determined to become an astronuaut even in tje facr of the challenger disaster 1986 that broke apart 73 seconds into its flight,leading to the deaths of its seven crew members Chawla joined NASA in 1988.She behan working as a vice president where she did Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) research on vertical take off and landing.in 1991 she got U.S. citizenship and started her career as a NASA astronaut in 1995.She was selected for her first in 1996.She spoke the following words while travelling in the weightlessness of space."You are just intelligence."She had travelled 10.67 million miles as many as 252 times around the Earth.
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