Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla 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. 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  Wikimedia, Wikidata
military flight engineer, astronaut, amateur radio operator, NASA Space Flight Medal, NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Congressional Space Medal of Honor, NASA Astronaut Group 15, Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class, United States, India, 

NASA Astronaut Group 15, 

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  STS-87 ⓘ
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  STS-107 ⓘ
  final flight of Space Shuttle Columbia

United States, India, NASA Astronaut Group 15, 

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The Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee confers Pravasi Bharatiya Samman on NASA Astronaut Kalpana Chawla posthumously at the inauguration of second Pravasi Bharatiya Divas - 2004 in New Delhi on January 9, 2004

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ISS-63 Cassidy inside Cygnus space freighter

• Chawla, Kalpana - , 2008

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
event	spaceflight	1997	STS-87	human spaceflight	Wikidata
event	spaceflight	2003	STS-107	human spaceflight	Wikidata
commons	image		Kalpana-Chawla		Commons
commons	image		Kalpana-Chawla		Commons
commons	image		Kalpana Chawla, official portrait		Commons
commons	image		Kalpana Chawla and husband		Commons
commons	image		Kalpana Chawla, American astronaut		Commons
commons	image		Kalpana Chawla		Commons
commons	image		Kalpana Chawla		Commons
commons	image		The Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee confers Pravasi Bharatiya Samman on NASA Astronaut Kalpana Chawla posthumously at the inauguration of second Pravasi Bharatiya Divas - 2004 in New Delhi on January 9, 2004		Commons
commons	image		NehruScienceCenter		Commons
commons	image		ISS-63 Cassidy inside Cygnus space freighter		Commons