Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla was an 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. She then traveled to the United States, where she earned her MSc and PhD, becoming a naturalized United States citizen in the early 1990s.

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1962 – 2003
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Born in
Karnal
Educated at
University of Colorado BoulderUniversity of Texas at ArlingtonPunjab Engineering CollegeTagore Baal Niketan Sr. Sec. School, Karnal
Awards
🏆 Congressional Space Medal of Honor🏆 NASA Distinguished Service Medal🏆 NASA Space Flight Medal🏆 Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class

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  • 1962

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    Birth
  • 2003

    Died

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