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Kalpana Chawla was born on 17 March 1962 in a Punjabi Hindu family in Karnal, Haryana. [11] [12] The youngest of four children, she was born into a conservative society, but Chawla broke several traditions to become the first Indian-born female astronaut.
As of 2024, Four people of Indian origin have been in space. The first astronaut of the Indian nationality, in space was Rakesh Sharma on Soyuz T-11 in 1984. [ 1][ 2] Three astronauts – Kalpana Chawla, [ 3][ 4] Sunita Williams [ 5] and Raja Chari [ 6][ 7] – flew as NASA astronauts. Sirisha Bandla is the first and only Indian-born woman to ...
Kalpana Patowary is an Indian playback and folk singer from Assam. She has recorded songs and folk music in several Indian languages, with Bhojpuri music being the major genre. [ 4][ 5] Patowary embarked on her career at the age of 4 [ 6] and received further training from Dipen Roy and Shikha Dutta for Sangeet Bisharad in Hindustani Classical ...
Logging[ edit] She was responsible for deploying the Spartan satellite. On her first mission, Chawla traveled over 10.4 million miles (16737177.6 km) in 252 orbits of the earth, logging more than 372 hours (15 Days and 12 Hours) in space. [6]
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital employee, bone cancer survivor, who is now a physician assistant; First in space with a prosthesis; Inspiration4 (Sep. 16, 2021) 70 Yulia Peresild Sep. 5, 1984 Russia: First actress in space, filming footage for the 2023 film The Challenge aboard the International Space Station. Soyuz MS-19 (Oct. 5, 2021) 71
List of Indian film actresses. This is an alphabetical list of notable Indian film actresses. Madhubala ( Hindi cinema) Madhuri Dixit ( Hindi cinema) J. Jayalalithaa ( Tamil cinema) Jyothika ( Tamil cinema) Savitri ( Telugu cinema) Anushka Shetty ( Telugu cinema) B. Saroja Devi ( Kannada cinema)
Juhi Chawla Mehta ( née Chawla; born 13 November 1967) is an Indian actress. She established herself as one of the leading actresses of Hindi cinema from the late 1980s through the early 2000s. [ 1] Recognised for her comic timing and vivacious on-screen persona, she is the recipient of several accolades, including two Filmfare Awards.
Selection. Teacher in Space Project (1985) Missions. STS-51-L ( disaster) Mission insignia. Sharon Christa McAuliffe ( née Corrigan; September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where she was serving as a payload specialist.