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Kalpana Chawla – The First Indian Woman In The Space Shuttle
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KALPANA CHAWLA was the first Indian-American woman in space. She was born in 1961 in Karnal, a small town in Haryana. She was called “MONTU” loving by her family members.
She completed her schooling studied in Tagore Bal Niketan, in Karnal in the year 1976. She did her Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh. She also did her Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from University of Texas, USA in 1984. She did her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from University of Colorado in 1986.
She married Jean Pierre Harrison, aviation writer and a flying instructor in 1983. She became U.S.Citizen in the year 1990.
She got the selection for NASA’s Space Programme in 1995. She became the first Indian American Woman in space in 1997. In January 2003, she went aboard for her second Space Shuttle Columbia to study the outer atmosphere of the Sun.
It is most unfortunate that Kalpana Chawla with her six fellow astronauts’ space shuttle crashed loosing the contact. The death of the bright Indian star is a great loss to the world of science.
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