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Kalpana Chawla: Quick Facts

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Born March 17, 1962 • Karnal • India
Died February 1, 2003 (aged 40) • Texas • Louisiana
Role In “Columbia” disaster

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Kalpana Chawla
The last Columbia space mission
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James A. Lovell, Jr.
Jim Lovell
American astronaut
Charles Bolden.
Charles Bolden
American astronaut
Astronaut Owen K. Garriott, Skylab 3 science pilot, reconstituting a prepackaged container of food at the crew quarters' ward-room table of the Orbital Workshop (OWS) of the space station, 1973.
Owen Garriott
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Franklin Chang-Díaz
Franklin Chang-Díaz
Costa Rican-born American physicist and astronaut
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Ellison Onizuka
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Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
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John Glenn
John Glenn
American astronaut and politician
Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
American astronaut
Thomas Stafford
Thomas Stafford
American astronaut
John W. Young
John W. Young
American astronaut
Ronald McNair.
Ronald McNair
American physicist and astronaut
The first teacher in space
Christa Corrigan McAuliffe
American educator
Frank Borman
Frank Borman
American astronaut
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Pete Conrad
American astronaut
Robert Crippen
Robert Crippen
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Astronaut Shannon Lucid.
Shannon Wells Lucid
American astronaut
Virgil I. Grissom, 1964.
Virgil I. Grissom
American astronaut
Edward H. White II, 1964.
Edward H. White II
American astronaut
Roger B. Chaffee, 1964.
Roger B. Chaffee
American astronaut
Sunita Williams
Sunita Williams
American astronaut

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