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
amateur radio operator, astronaut, military flight engineer, Congressional Space Medal of Honor, NASA Distinguished Service Medal, NASA Space Flight Medal, Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class, 

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  STS-87 ⓘ
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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

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
class	orbit		STS-87	Kalpana Chawla, Kevin R. Kregel, Leonid Kadeniuk, Steven Lindsey, Takao Doi, Winston E. Scott, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2003	STS-107	David M. Brown, Ilan Ramon, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, Michael P. Anderson, Rick Husband, William C. McCool, 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