1 Noted Woman Chawla

Kalpana, a sweet girl was born in Karnal, India. She was amazing and intelligent from her childhood. She is the first Indian born woman and second person in space from or sub-continent.She completed her earlier schooling at Tagore Baal Niketon Senior Secondary School, Krnal.After passing her higher secondary school, she admitted herself in Aeoronautical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, India, in 1982.After graduating in Engineering College, Kalpana Chawla moved to the United States the same year. She obtained her master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from tge University of Texas in 1984.Later she did her Ph.D in Aerospace Engineering in 1988 from the University of Colorado. Chawla joined NASA in 1988 and she began working as a vice president where she did Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) research on vertical take-off and landing. In 1991 she got U.S. citizenship and started her career as a NASA astronaut in 1995. She was selected for her first flight in 1996. She spoke some important words while travelling of space," You are just your intelligence ". She had travelled 10.67 million miles, as many as 252 times around the Earth.. Her first space mission began with six others astronauts on the Space Shuttle Columbia on 19 November 1997. Her first mission that lasted for 16 days.

In 2000 she was selected for her second space mission STS 107. On 16 January 2003, Kalpana Chawla finally started her new mission with six other space crew on the ill-fated space Shuttle Columbia. She was one of the mission specialists. But after a 16 day scientific mission in space, on 1 February 2003, Columbia disintegrated over Texas during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. All the crew in Columbia including Chawla died only 16 minutes prior to their scheduled landing. Through her death, we lost a amazing and industrious person. We all are proud of her....

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