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| − | + | Born in karnal on July-1-1963. Her parents were Bansari Lal Chawla and Sanjogta. She used to fancy flying the ''puspaka'' plane. She would sleep in the frontyard of her house during summer | |
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| − | + | After her school education she chose science and completed her PUC. At school in her drawing class she would fill her pages with planes and stars. Her family was of the view that he should choose Electronics, Electrical or Architecture. She insisted on Aerospace Engineering. | |
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| − | + | She got admission at the Punjab Engineering college at Chandigarh. Kalpana earned her master's degree at the University of Texas in 1984 | |
| + | She earned her Ph.D from Colorado University in 1988. | ||
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she had worked -6years at NASA | she had worked -6years at NASA | ||
Revision as of 11:32, 29 January 2013
Kalpana the star
Growing up years
Born in karnal on July-1-1963. Her parents were Bansari Lal Chawla and Sanjogta. She used to fancy flying the puspaka plane. She would sleep in the frontyard of her house during summer
Early Education
After her school education she chose science and completed her PUC. At school in her drawing class she would fill her pages with planes and stars. Her family was of the view that he should choose Electronics, Electrical or Architecture. She insisted on Aerospace Engineering.
Her Higher Education
She got admission at the Punjab Engineering college at Chandigarh. Kalpana earned her master's degree at the University of Texas in 1984 She earned her Ph.D from Colorado University in 1988.
Career
Working in NASA
she had worked -6years at NASA selected as astronaut candidate -trained-3years Her first flight in Aboard Columbia from-Nov,19toDec-5,1997 She went into space again on Jan-16,2003
conducted-80-Experiments.She travelled 6.5 million miles in 252
orbits of the earth
As it was re-entering earth-7 astronauts perished over Texas Pall of gloom descended in India Shortly-India re named it's 1 st weather satelite as Kalpana -1