Kalpana Chawla

1962 – 2003 United States

amateur radio operatorastronautmilitary flight engineer

Who was Kalpana Chawla?

American astronaut

Biographical data adapted from Wikipedia’s article on Kalpana Chawla (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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2003

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Pisces

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