kalpana chawla was a famous astronaut.she died in an aeropace accident.she was in kalrnal,india on 17march.
she graduated in aeronautical engineering from punjab engineering college & moved to the usa in 1982.she obtained her masters degree in aerospace engineering from the university of texas in 1982.![aboutus.jpg]
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thereafter she got her phd degree in the same subject in 1988 from the university of corado.in 1991, she got the green card & in four years, she started her career as a nasa astronaut.her first space mission began on 19 november1997 with some otherastronauts.
the name of the space shuttle was columbia.on 19 january 2003
chawla was on a space mission on the ill fated space shuttle columbia.
aftet a16 day mission in space, columbia disintegrated into the earths atmosphere on its journey & the brave woman chowlas life came ta an end.