10 interesting facts about Kalpana Chawala.
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- Chawla acquired her Bachelor of Engineering degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh in 1982.
- She began working at the NASA Ames Research Centre in 1988 and did computational fluid dynamics (CFD) research on vertical/short takeoff and landing concepts.
- Chawla was a creative astronaut. She liked poetry, dancing, cycling and running.
- she was the first Indian-American astronaut and the first India born woman in space.
- Chawla first flew to the outer space in 1977 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator.
- She travelled over 10.4 million miles in 252 orbits of the earth, logging more than 372 hours in space
- In the year, 2000, Chawla was selected for her second flight as part of the crew of STS-107. The mission got repeatedly delayed and she returned to space on January 16, 2003.
- On February 1, same year, Chawla died along with all six other crew members in the Space Shuttle Columbia on the ill-fated STS-107 mission.
- Shortly before it was scheduled to conclude its 28th mission, STS-107, the space shuttle disintegrated over Texas during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, leading to the death of all the seven crew members.
- Several scholarships, streets, universities and institutions in India and the United States have been named in her honour.
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