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Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003) 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.
The old series runs from #11 to #436 and the new series starts from #501. New series issues typically appear in a deluxe format and are usually reprints of titles in old series. However some issues such as Kalpana Chawla, JRD Tata etc. have appeared in the new series alone.
Kalpana Chawla March 17, 1962 India: First Indian American in space and First Indian origin woman in Space. Died on the Columbia. STS-87 (November 19, 1997) STS-107 (January 16, 2003) 2 Sunita Williams September 19, 1965 India United States: Served on ISS Expedition 14/15, Expedition 32/33 and Expedition 71/72. Second female commander of ISS.
Kalpana Chawla, NASA Space Shuttle astronaut, who died in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster; Khem Shahani, microbiologist who conducted pioneer research on probiotics; discovered the DDS-1 strain of Lactobacillus acidophilus; Krishan Sabnani, engineer and senior vice president of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs ...
Chawla was born on March 17, 1962, in Karnal, Haryana, India, but her official date of birth was altered to July 1, 1961, to allow her to become eligible for the matriculation exam. [ 2 ] Graduation
Kalpana-1 was the first dedicated meteorological satellite launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on 12 September 2002. The satellite is three-axis stabilized and is powered by solar panels, getting up to 550 watts (0.74 hp) of power. The METSAT bus was used as the basis for the Chandrayaan lunar ...
Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003), Indian American astronaut lost in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; Kalpana Dash (born 1966), Indian lawyer and mountaineer; Kalpana Datta (1913–1995), Indian independence movement activist and fighter; Kalpana Iyer (born c. 1950), Indian beauty pageant contestant and Hindi film actress; Kalpana.
51826 Kalpanachawla (provisional designation 2001 OB 34) is an Eoan asteroid in the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter.It was discovered on 19 July 2001, by astronomers of the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program at Palomar Observatory in California, United States.