Kalpana Chawla (Punjabi:ਕਲਪਨਾ ਚਾਵਲਾ) (7 March 1962 – 1 February 2003), was an Indian-born American astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist. She was one of seven crewmembers lost aboard Space Shuttle Columbia during mission STS-107 when the shuttle disintegrated upon reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Kalpana Chawla is a posthumous recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Wikipedia
Montsu is the affectionate form of Kalpana Chawla's family name, Montu ; the name Kalpana , meaning imagination , three-year old Montu chose for herself. www.montsu.org
Images Visit the Gallery to see photos of Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla and the STS-107 crew. spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/archives/sts-107/memorial/ch...
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Kalpana Chawla. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpana_Chawla
You get the feeling that I need to work extraordinarily hard along with other human beings to respect that," said astronaut Kalpana Chawla in a 1998 interview. www.beliefnet.com/story/120/story_12076.html
Around 10pm, his uncle found Chawla unconscious, precariously close to the wagon wheel-- he had fallen off his perch in his stupor. www.rediff.com/news/2003/feb/01spec.htm
