칼파나 촐라

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칼파나 촐라(영어: Kalpana Chawla 칼파나 차울라[*], 1962년 3월 17일 ~ 2003년 2월 1일)은 미국의 우주비행사이다.

Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. Chawla expressed an interest in aerospace engineering from an early age and took engineering classes at Dayal Singh College and Punjab Engineering College in India. She then traveled to the United States, where she earned her MSc and PhD, becoming a naturalized United States citizen in the early 1990s.