As per our current Database, Kalpana Chawla is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Kalpana Chawla is 62 years, 1 months and 3 days old. Kalpana Chawla will celebrate 63rd birthday on a Monday 17th of March 2025. Below we countdown to Kalpana Chawla upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Kalpana Chawla |
Occupation | Astronaut |
Age | 62 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
Born | March 17, 1962 (India) |
Birthday | March 17 |
Town/City | India |
Nationality | India |
Kalpana Chawla’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Kalpana Chawla was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
NASA's first Indian astronaut and the first Indian-born woman in space. She died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
She earned her undergraduate degree in India, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Days after her death, India's Prime Minister announced the renaming of a series of weather satellites to KAPLANA in her honor.
She grew up in Karnal, Haryana. In 1983, she married Jean-Pierre Harrison.
Laurel Clark was also aboard the ill-fated Columbia shuttle when it disintegrated.