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On This Day (Jan 16.): When Kalpana Chawla Boarded for Her Last Mission

The Haryana-born Indian-American astronaut passed away at the age 40 India may be a 79-year-old sovereign nation since the British regime went away. However, in less than eight decades, the country has achieved tremendous success in various fields, including space technology, space travel and so on. On some occasions, India achieved milestones on its own, whereas on some other occasions, the country took help from other countries or worked in joint ventures. One such milestone was the space travel of Kalpana Chawla, India’s daughter born in Haryana who went on to become an Indian-American NASA astronaut and space engineer. Unfortunately, on this day, i.e., January 16, 2003, she boarded the space shuttle Columbia for a mission which became her last. From Haryana to NASA Born in Karnal, Haryana, in 1962, Kalpana Chawla took up engineering courses at Dayal Singh College in Karnal, followed by an aeronautic engineering course at the ...

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