KALPANA CHAWLA
(First Woman Space Passenger)
Kalpana Chawla was born 42 years ago in 1961, in the
Karnal district of Haryana state. She got her primary education
n Tagore Bal Niketan School She was intelligent right from her
childhood. She went to space again on 16th January. 2003 with
her seven companions.
She got admission in graduation in Punjabs University and
was the only girl in Aeronautics. After that she went to America
for further studics. In 1984. She completed lher post graduation
in Aerospace Engineering from Texas University. In 1988, She
got doctorate degree from Colorado University. After that she
began her career in Aims. Research centre of Nasa.
In 1993, she became the Vice-chairperson of overset Pathatenk
of California. In 1994, she was accepted as a space passenger by
Nasa. In 1995, she became a member of space zone. Before going
to space, Kalpana told that going again in space was like a
fulfillment of her dream. Dreaming of going to space, Kalpana
also wanted to land at moon. In these ten years, Kalpana was true
to her responsibilities.
According to her teacher, Kalpana had keen interest in science right from the beginning. So, she dreamt to going to space from childlhood. Due to her interest in science, her father inspired her to go for higher studies. But unfortunately, when Kalpana after doing research in space was returning to earth, the space shuttle Colombia burst at height of 2 lacs feet.
This was a heart breaking news for specially the staff of Nasa, her school companions and teacher. This news spread like a wild fire in the world. No one was abic to believe it. The whole world was in grief. Though Kalpana had left this world, but she had inspired thousands of women in the world to go to space for the benefit of human beings.
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