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         KALPANA CHAWLA

    …..THE  FIRST  INDIAN  WOMAN  IN  SPACE…..

      

Born          : March 17, 1962

PlAce         : Karnal

Father       : Banarasi Lal Chawla

Mother     : Sanjyothi Chawla

Spouse      : Jean-Pierre Harrison

Education : University of Colorado

                     Boulder

Space

Missions  : STS-107, STS-87

Died          : February 1, 2003,

            

       CHILD HOOD AND EDUCATION

 

         
              While other children of her age dressed their Barbie dolls, Kalpana liked to draw the pictures of airplanes.  

                   
                                                         

         

She moved to the United States in 1982 where she obtained a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1984.Determined to become an astronaut even in the face of the Challenger disaster, Chawla went on to earn a second Masters in 1986 and a PhD  in aerospace engineering in 1988 from the University of Colorado at Boulder
 

             LIFE PARTNER

 Kalpana Chawla married Jean-Pierre Harrison on December 02, 1983.Hee was a very supporting person to her all wishes..

 

                               

                CAREER IN NASA 

        Dr. Chawla entered NASA's astronaut program in 1994 and was selected for flight in 1996 . Chawla's first mission to space began on November 19 , 1997 as part of the 6 astronaut crew that flew the Space Shuttle Columbia Flight STS-87 . Chawla was the first Indian-born woman in space, as well as the first Indian-American in space.

 

                  FIRST MISSION

              Her first space mission began on November 19, 1997, as part of the six-astronaut crew that flew the Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87. Chawla was the first Indian-born woman and the second Indian person to fly in space, following cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma  who flew in 1984 on the Soyuz T-11.

 On her first mission, Chawla traveled over 10.4 million miles in 252 orbits of the earth, logging more than 372 hours in space.During STS-87, she was responsible for deploying the Spartan satellite which malfunctioned, necessitating a spacewalk by Winston Scott and Takao Doi to capture the satellite. A five-month NASA investigation fully exonerated Chawla by identifying errors in software interfaces and the defined procedures of flight crew and ground control.

       

                         
   

                    SECOND MISSION

                In 2000, Chawla was selected for her second flight as part of the crew of STS-107.

        
 

                       COLUMBIA SPACE SHUTTLE

            

                      
 

                             

         This mission was repeatedly delayed due to scheduling conflicts and technical problems such as the July 2002 discovery of cracks in the shuttle engine flow liners. On January 16, 2003, Chawla finally returned to space aboard Space Shuttle Columbia on the ill-fated STS-107 mission. During the launch of STS-107, Columbia's 28th mission, a piece of foam insulation broke off from the Space Shuttle external tank and struck the left wing of the orbitr. A few previous shuttle launches had seen minor damage from foam shedding,but some engineers suspected that the damage to Columbia was more serious.
 

                            

 

                    Chawla in the space shuttle simulator

                       
NASA  managers limited the investigation, reasoning that the crew could not have fixed the problem if it had been confirmed.When Columbia re-entered the atmosphere of Earth, the damage allowed hot atmospheric gases to penetrate and destroy the internal wing structure, which caused the spacecraft to become unstable and slowly break apart.

 

 

 

 

 

PREPARATION FOR MY MISSION

 

 

 

 

 

TO MY MISSION

 

 

 

 

 

                  DEATH
 

      Kalpana Chawla died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster  which occurred on February 1, 2003, when the Columbia disintegrated over Texes during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, with the death of all of seven crew members, shortly before it was scheduled to conclude its 28th mission, STS-107.
Just 16 minutes before landing, the space shuttle disintegrated, killing all on board.

       

                  AWARDS

  Congressional Space Medal of Honour
  NASA  Space Flight Medal

     NASA Distinguished Service Medal

 

       WORDS OF KALPANA

         



 

                  

                  

 

        HONORS

 

 
  The prime minister of India announced that the meteriological series of satellites ,Metsat,was to be renamed “Kalpana”. 

·       The Kalpana Chawla Award was instituted by the Government of Karnatakato recognize young women scientist

·       VIT University has named one of its girl’s hostel as Kalpana Chawla block

·       Kalpana chawla Government Medical College(KCGMC) formed for woman located in Karnal,Haryana

·       The Government of Haryana established the Kalpana Chawla Planetarium in Jyotisar,Kurukshetra

·       The Indian Institute of Technology,Kharapur,named the Kalpana Chawla Space Technology cell in her honor

·       Delhi Technology University named a girl’s hostel block after Chawla

 

Through  KALPANA CHAWLA ……
                       

 

 

          Through universe...................

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