Updated Mar 17, 2021 | 15:10 IST
Chawla made the whole nation proud by becoming the first Indian woman to go to space. Her contribution to space science was honoured in 2005 when the Indian satellite MetSat-1 was named Kalpana-1. Netizens pay tribute to Kalpana Chawla on her birth anniversary | Photo Credit: BCCL
Kalpana Chawla was born on 17 March 1962 in Karnal Haryana. She studied in Karnal’s Tagore Baal Niketan Sr. Sec. School and then went to study aeronautical engineering at Chandigarh’s Punjab Engineering College.
After securing a Master s Degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas in 1984, she earned a doctorate of philosophy in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado.