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* Kalpana Chawla was born March 17, 1962, and was raised and educated in India. She moved to the United States in 1982 to continue her aerospace engineering studies and earned two Master of Science degrees. She was the first woman of Indian descent to fly into space, aboard the space shuttle Columbia on November 19, 1997. She flew a second flight on Columbia in January, 2003, and was killed when the craft broke apart during reentry. * Sunita Williams is a US Navy officer and astronaut, born September 19, 1965. Her father is of Indian descent, with the family's ancestral home in Gudjarat. In December, 2006, Sunita flew aboard the space shuttle to the International Space Station, where she remained aboard until April, 2007. This set the single-mission endurance record for a female astronaut, 195 days.
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∙ 6y agoAlan Shepard (1923-1998) was the first US astronaut to reach space, on a sub-orbital flight on May 5, 1961. His space capsule was named "Freedom 7" and the launch vehicle was Mercury-Redstone 3.
His home was in New Jersey during the time of his space adventure.
* The first man in space was the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who made a single orbit of the Earth a month earlier, on April 12, 1961.
Alan Shepard was the first of the Mercury astronauts to enter space, his flight was sub orbital, meaning he didn't actually orbit the Earth, that was left to John Glenn.
Alan Shepard's flight took place on May 5th 1961, when piloting Freedom 7 he became the second man in space. He reached a height of 116 miles and landed 302 miles from where he launched.
Shepard later went on to become the 5th person to walk on the Moon.
He died in 1998 aged 74.
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∙ 10y agothe first indian woman in space was kalpana chawla
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∙ 9y agoThe first Indian woman to go into space went up in 1997 on the Columbia space shuttle. Her name was Kalpana Chawla. Sadly, she passed away in 2003 during the Columbia space shuttle tragedy.
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∙ 12y agokalpana chawla nonu
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First Indian woman to go on space?
The first Indian born woman to go into space was Kalpana Chawla. The first woman of Indian decent was Rakesh Sharma.
What was the name of first indian space shuttle launched?
The first Indian space shuttle launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is called the Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD). It was launched on May 23, 2016, as a technology demonstrator for future development of reusable space vehicles.
Who was the first woman to go to space and man to go to space?
YURI GAGRIN WAS THE FIRST MAN and Valentina was the first women to go in space
Who was the first Indian women on moon?
The only people to have walked on the moon so far are American men. No Indian women have walked on the moon.
Who was the first spanish women in space?
charlie tran
First Indian women who traveled into space twice?
Sunita williams
Name some Indian women who traveled in the space?
kalpana chawla and sunita Williams are some of the Indian women who went in the space.
Who was the first woman of Indian origin to go into space?
Yael Rom was the first women pilot of IAF.
First women to go into space?
The first women to go into space is Ellen Ochoa
What year was the first women in space?
Velentina Tereshkova was the first women in space in 1963.
First Indian woman to go on space?
The first Indian born woman to go into space was Kalpana Chawla. The first woman of Indian decent was Rakesh Sharma.
What do you know about Indian women who went in space?
suneeta wilioms
The first women to go into space?
Valentina Tereshkova was the first women in space. She was part of the Soviet Space Program
Who were the first men in space of India?
The Indian pilot Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian to fly in space in Russian spacecraft.
Who was the first Indian cosmonaut?
Kalpana Chowla. She was, not only the first American-Indian in space, but the first woman in space as well.
Who was first Indian to go in to space?
Kalpana Chawla, an Indian
Who was the first women chief minister of an Indian state?
Suchetra Kriplani was the first women chief minister of an Indian State
