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Kalpana Chawla, Astronaut
Kalpana Chawla, an astronaut-alumna of the University of Colorado
at Boulder, was among the astronauts aboard the Columbia Shuttle,
which exploded Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003. Dr. Chawla is the second CU-Boulder
astronaut-alumnus to perish in a shuttle explosion. The first was Ellison
Onizuka, who died when the Challenger Shuttle exploded in 1986.
Dr. Chawla received her doctor of philosophy degree in aerospace
engineering at CU-Boulder in 1988. The Columbia shuttle flight was
her second space flight.
Official
Statements on the Loss of Kalpana Chawla
News Release: CU-Boulder
Alumna Rockets Into Space With Student Experiments (Columbia,
2003)
News Release: Two
CU-Boulder Engineering Alums To Fly On NASA Space Shuttle Nov. 19 (Columbia,
1997)
CU-Boulder
in Space: Special Report
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