Born in Haryana’s Karnal on March 17, 1962, Kalpana Chawla was one of the first women to pursue aeronautical engineering at the Chandigarh-based Punjab Engineering College. Kalpana was called by ...

Kalpana Chawla was born on March 17 ... Kalpana was always driven by the mysteries of space. In childhood, she attended the flying clubs to see the planes with her father. Thus, after completing ...

Kalpana Chawla, born on March 17 ... her PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado. 4. From childhood, she had a deep fascination for aeroplanes and frequently visited local ...

Kalpana Chawla's name remains immortal in space history. Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams is on her way to Earth after an extended nine-month stay at the International Space Station (ISS).

Chawla, the first Indian-origin woman to go to space, remembered on her birth anniversary A file photo of Kalpana Chawla. She was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and ...

Kalpana Chawla: First Indian woman in space Kalpana Chawla, born in Karnal, Haryana, was the first Indian woman in space. With a childhood passion for aviation, she pursued aerospace engineering ...