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When Kalpana Chawla was a student at
Tagore Bal Niketan in Karnal, she used to fill her
drawing-books with sketches of Aeroplanes. After
High School, her parents were keen that she should
study Medicine but she preferred Engineering. She
chose Aeronautics to study more about aeroplanes
She was then only seventeen. Eighteen years later,
she has become the first Indian woman and the first
from any Asian country to travel in space. This
happened on November 19, 1997—when she was
one of the 6-member crew to get into the space
shuttle, Columbia, It was a 15-day adventure in
space. “This is a proud moment for India”, she said
just before her launch into space. Kalpana is a
Black Belt in Karate, an expert swimmer, a BharatNatyam artist and a poet who once wrote about the
gypsies of Karnal.
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