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Essay on Kalpana Chawla:<\/strong> Dreams know no boundaries. It only knows passion and energy to make them true. But what if those boundaries have certain limits? Can it be overcome? One such example of determination and resilience is Kalpana Chawla. She was a woman with an endless love of space who crossed every social-conservative boundary that tried to pull her leg back to old traditions and thoughts. She set an example for all humans about how and through what correct approach one should follow their passion for real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Also Read: <\/strong>The Quest of Kalpana Chawla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early Life, Education and Career<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kalpana started her school education at Tagore Baal Niketan Senior Secondary School, Karnal. She was a self-motivated girl inspired to fly by a local flying club. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering<\/strong><\/a> from Punjab Technical College in India in 1982. Following her Bachelor\u2019s degree<\/strong><\/a>, she pursued a Master\u2019s in Aeronautical Technology from the University of Texas at Arlington<\/strong><\/a>. She later completed her PhD in Aeronautical Engineering <\/strong>at the University of Colorado Boulder <\/strong>in 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After completing her academics, she started rendering her powered-lift computational fluid dynamics services at Ames Research Center at NASA. Later, in 1993, she joined Overset Methods Inc., Los Altos, California, as Vice President and Research Scientist. Here, she was a responsible authority for aerodynamic optimization. In 1994, her career journey took a turn, and she joined NASA and reported to Johnson Space Center on 15 March as an astronaut candidate in the 15th Group of Astronauts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her childhood dream of launching into space was successfully fulfilled in 1997 when she became one of the important members of six astronauts on the Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-87. As her first space mission, she finished 252 orbits of the Earth in 15 days and 16 hours, and with this, she became the first Indian woman to enter space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Read: How to Become an Astronaut Abroad?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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