As everyone wait for Sunita Williams a safe return, they also remember Kalpana Chawla On his birthday. Indian American astronauts Was killed in 2003 Space shuttle columbia And the crew ended during entry, 16 minutes before the scheduled landing. The crew was on a 16 -day mission for science and research and had successfully conducted about 80 experiments. He was riding on STS -107 Columbia from 16 January to 1 February 2003.
Some things about him should be told here:
Kalpana Chawla was born on 17 March 1962 in Karanal, Haryana, India in Banarasi Lal Chawla and Sanjogata Kharband. Graduates from Tagore School, Karanal, India, in 1976, Kalpanna obtained a science degree in Aeronazital Engineering in 1982 from Punjab Engineering College. Engineering from the University of Colorado, 1988.
He started working at NASA AIIMS Research Center in 1988.
In 1994, he was elected by NASA and next year he reported Johnson Space Center as an astronaut candidate in the 15th group of astronauts. “In November 1996, Kalpana Chawla was assigned as a mission expert and prime robotic arm operator on STS-87. In January 1998, he was assigned as crew representatives for shuttle and station flight crew equipment, and later served as a lead to the crew system and deer of the Astronaut office. Space, called,” Nasa.
Tribute to Indian original astronaut
“Recalling India’s ‘Space Star’ Kalpana Chawla, the first female astronaut of Indian origin, to go into space, on her birth anniversary. His journey inspires women worldwide to believe their dreams. A big salute for high-flyer,” Dr. Jyoti Eknath Gikwad posted on X.
“On the anniversary of her birth, we remember that Kalpana Chawla remembers the Indian-birth female astronaut, who enhances India’s global standing globally in India’s global space exploration.
