Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla
कल्‍पना चावला
NASA-astronaut
Född1 juli 1961
Karnal, Indien
Död1 februari 2003 (41 år)
Tid i rymden31 dagar, 14 timmar, 54 minuter
UrvalsgruppAstronautgrupp 15
UppdragSTS-87, STS-107
Uppdrags­emblem
UtmärkelserCongressional Space Medal of Honor
Kalpana Chawla arbetar på STS-107

Kalpana Chawla (Hindi: कल्‍पना चावला), född 1 juli 1961 i Karnal i Indien, död 1 februari 2003 ovanför Texas, var en amerikansk astronaut uttagen i astronautgrupp 15 den 9 december 1994. Deltog med STS-107, 16 januari - 1 februari 2003, när alla sju astronauterna ombord förolyckades under återinträdet i jordens atmosfär.[1]

Kalpana Chawlas intresse för att flyga var inspirerat av Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata, en indisk flygpionjär.

2004 tilldelades hon Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

2006 namngavs månkratern Chawla efter henne, kratern är belägen i Apollokraternmånens baksida.

Även asteroiden 51826 Kalpanachawla och Northrop Grumman:s rymdfarkost Cygnus NG-14 är uppkallade efter henne.[2]

Utbildning och tidig yrkeserfarenhet

1976 utexaminerades hon från Tagoreskolan i Karnal. 1982 tog hon Bachelor of Science-examen i flygteknik vid Punjab Engineering College. 1982 flyttade hon till USA där hon avlade Master of Science-examen i flygteknik från University of Texas i Arlington år 1984. Därefter flyttade hon till Boulder och avlade 1988 en doktorsexamen i flygteknik vid University of Colorado Boulder. 1988 började Chawla arbeta på NASA Ames Research Center inom området Computational fluid dynamics.[1]

Familjeliv

Hon gifte sig med den franske frilansflyginstruktören Jean-Pierre Harrison 1983 och blev amerikansk medborgare 1990.

Rymdfärder

Rymdfärdsstatistik

FärdDatumTidEVA
STS-8719 november - 5 december 1997376:34:000:00:00
STS-10716 januari - 1 februari 2003382:20:000:00:00
Totalt758:54:000:00:00

Externa länkar

Referenser

  1. ^ [a b] Probst, Ernst (2010). ”Kalpana Chawla” (på tyska). Frauen im Weltall. GRIN Verlag. sid. 9 
  2. ^ ”Minor Planet Center 51826 Kalpanachawla” (på engelska). Minor Planet Center. https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=51826. Läst 7 september 2018. 

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Astronaut Kalpana Chawla (1961 † 2003), STS-107 mission specialist, looks over a procedures checklist in the SPACEHAB Research Double Module aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.
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Kalpana Chawla, American astronaut who died during the failed re-entry of Space Shuttle Columbia.
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