Kalpana chawla was born in karnal,India.she completed her earlier schooling at Tagore bal niketan senior secondary school. She is the first Indian born woman and the second person in space from this subcontinent. After graduating in in aeronautical engineering from Punjab engineering college India in 1982 move to the United States the same year.she obtained her masters degree in aerospace engineering from the university of Texas in 1984. Later she did PhD in aerospace engineering in 1988 from the university of Colorado.
Chawla joint NASA in 1998.she begin working as a vice president where she did computational fluid dynamics CFD research on vertical takeoff and landing.in 1991 she got us citizenship and started her career as a NASA astronaut in 1995. She was selected for her first flight in 1996 she had travelled 10.6 7 million miles as many as 252 times around the earth.
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