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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.
Name Birth date Ancestry Birth Comment Missions (Launch date) 1 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
Name Birth date Country ... Kalpana Chawla Jul. 1, 1961 died Feb. 1, 2003 United States: First Asian American (Indian origin, naturalized U.S. citizen) ...
Dr. Subbarow Yellapragada Kalpana Chawla, NASA astronaut, On February 1, 2003, Kalpana Chawla died on the Space Shuttle Columbia Sunita Williams, NASA astronaut. Yellapragada Subbarow (1895–1948), pioneering biochemist who discovered ATP, the human body's energy molecule.
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
The first part of the system, named "Kalpana", was dedicated to Chawla, who had worked at the Ames Research Center before joining the Space Shuttle program. [79] The first dedicated meteorological satellite launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Metsat-1, was renamed to Kalpana-1 on February 5, 2003, after Chawla. [80] [81]
Following is a list of famous and notable Punjabi people, an ethnic group belonging to the Punjab region.It contains people mainly from what is today Punjab, Pakistan and Punjab, India, and people with Punjabi ancestry or people who speak Punjabi as their primary language.
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