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    Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian-born woman and second Indian person to fly in space. She was born in Karnal, India and earned aerospace engineering degrees. Chawla joined NASA in 1995 and flew her first mission in 1997 on the Space Shuttle Columbia, where she operated the robotic arm. On her second mission in 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry, killing all seven crew members including Chawla. She was honored posthumously for her contributions to space exploration.

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    Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian-born woman and second Indian person to fly in space. She was born in Karnal, India and earned aerospace engineering degrees. Chawla joined NASA in 1995 and flew her first mission in 1997 on the Space Shuttle Columbia, where she operated the robotic arm. On her second mission in 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry, killing all seven crew members including Chawla. She was honored posthumously for her contributions to space exploration.

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    Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian-born woman and second Indian person to fly in space. She was born in Karnal, India and earned aerospace engineering degrees. Chawla joined NASA in 1995 and flew her first mission in 1997 on the Space Shuttle Columbia, where she operated the robotic arm. On her second mission in 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry, killing all seven crew members including Chawla. She was honored posthumously for her contributions to space exploration.

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    Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian-born woman and second Indian person to fly in space. She was born in Karnal, India and earned aerospace engineering degrees. Chawla joined NASA in 1995 and flew her first mission in 1997 on the Space Shuttle Columbia, where she operated the robotic arm. On her second mission in 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry, killing all seven crew members including Chawla. She was honored posthumously for her contributions to space exploration.

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    Kalpana chawlaNASA Astronaut

    Synopsis
    About kalpana chawla Early life

    Education
    Career at NASA Mission of kalpana

    Unfortunate death

    About Kalpana Chawla


    Kalpana Chawla (July 1, 1961 February 1, 2003) was

    an Indian-American astronaut who, was a mission specialist on the space shuttle Columbia.
    She first flew on the Columbia in 1997 as a mission

    specialist and primary robotic arm operator. Chawla was one of seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

    Early life
    Kalpana Chawla was born to a Hindu family

    in Karnal, Haryana, India .


    To Banarasi Lal Chawla and Sanjyothi. She had two

    sisters, Sunita and Deepa, and a brother, Sanjay.


    She became a US citizen in 1990. She was the

    youngest of four siblings in the family.

    Education..
    Chawla completed her earlier schooling at Tagore Public

    School, Karnal and her Bachelor of Engineering degree in Aeronautical Engineering at Punjab Engineering College at Chandigarh in 1982.
    Later she got her bachelor degree of science in India,she

    moved to united states and got her M.S. and PhD in aero space engineering at the university of Colorado
    That year she began working at the NASA Ames Research

    Center as vice president of Overset Methods, Inc.

    NASA CAREER..
    Chawla joined the NASA 'Astronaut Corps' in March 1995

    and was selected for her first flight in 1996.


    She spoke the following words while traveling in the

    weightlessness of space, "You are just your intelligence".


    She had traveled 10.4 million km, as many as 252 times

    around the Earth.

    MISSION OF KALPANA ..
    Her first space mission began on November 19, 1997 as part

    of the six-astronaut crew that flew the Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87 Chawla was the first Indian-born woman and the second Indian person to fly in space, following cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma who flew in 1984 in a spacecraft On her first mission Chawla traveled over 10.4 million miles in 252 orbits of the earth, logging more than 372 hours in space During STS-87, she was responsible for deploying the Spartan Satellite which malfunctioned, necessitating a spacewalk by Winston Scott and Takao Doi to capture the satellite.

    Chawla was assigned to technical positions in the astronaut

    office to work on the space station, her performance in which was recognized with a special award from her peers.
    The space shuttle STS-87 Mission- kalpanas first space

    flight was part of the preparation for the construction of the international space station.
    On the other hand, the space shuttle STS-107 her second as

    a flight engineer and mission specialist was a purely scientific mission

    Unfortunate death
    Kalpana was one of the seven crew members who

    died aboard space shuttle Columbia during mission STS-107.


    The shuttle disintegrated upon re-entry into earths

    atmosphere on February 1,2003


    She was posthumously awarded the congressional

    space medal of Honour,the NASA Space Flight Medal and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal

    Conclusion
    For India ,kalpana is a heroine. She represents the aspiration of millions of Indians.

    Thank you

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