Kalpana Chawla
Personal Information
Born: 1962
Died: 2003
Country of Birth: India
Nationality: India; USA
Ethnicity: Indian
Education
1982, BA Aeronautical Engineering, Punjab Engineering College; 1984, MS Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas-Arlington; 1986, MS Aerospace Engineering, 1988, PhD, University of Colorado-Boulder
Professional Life
Field of Study: Astronautics; Fluid Dynamics
Institution/Corporation: NASA
Degrees & Memberships: the following were named after her: a mission to deliver supplies to ISS; an asteroid; a lunar crater; a series of MetSat satellites in India; several schools; a dormatory; a museum; a youth hostil; an apartment house; a Northrup Grumman Cygnus capsule; 2004, the Kalpana Chawla Award was established by the Government of Karnataka to recognize young female scientists
Awards & Achievements
Awards: Congressional Space Medal of Honor; NASA Space Flight Medal; NASA Distinguished Service Medal
Achievements: 1st woman of Indian origin in space; computational fluid dynamics (CFD) research on vertical &/or short take-off & landing (V/STOL) concepts; certified flight instructor rating for airplanes, gliders & commercial pilots license for single & multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes & gliders; logged over 376 hours in space; worked on International Space Station
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