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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.
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.
The crew insignia or 'patch' design was initiated by crew members Dr. Laurel Clark and Dr. Kalpana Chawla. [10] First-time crew member Clark provided most of the design concepts as Chawla led the design of her maiden voyage STS-87 insignia.
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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
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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.