

Photo: NASA, 2002 · NASA official portrait of astronaut Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist, taken 8 March 2002 at Johnson Space Center (NASA photo IDs JSC2002-E-25323 and KSC-02PD-1127). Verified on the NASA Image and Video Library record KSC-02pd1127 (description 'Official portrait of astronaut Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist', dated 2002-03-08) and on the Wikimedia Commons file page, which tags it public domain as a work solely created by NASA. NASA's media usage guidelines (nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines) state that NASA content is generally not subject to copyright in the United States; no conflicting copyright notice was found on the NASA record. Original downloaded from NASA's image library: 2400 x 3000 pixels, SHA-1 a05f97e4dbb6fa517445cf7b9217092eeddfd349; stored file downscaled once to 960 x 1200, no crop, never upscaled. Caveat: the depicted person's likeness may carry personality rights in some uses, as the Commons page notes. · Public Domain (NASA work, generally not subject to copyright in the United States)
우주비행사 · 20세기
칼파나 촐라
1962–2003
주요 업적 분야
아직 성격 매칭에 포함되지 않았습니다 — 기록된 근거가 성격 모델 전체를 다루기에는 충분하지 않습니다. 이 페이지의 다른 모든 내용은 자유롭게 확인하실 수 있습니다.
주요 업적
1994년 12월 NASA에 선발된 그는 1997년 STS-87과 2003년 STS-107로 컬럼비아호에 두 번 탑승해 우주에서 총 30일 14시간 54분을 보냈다. 텍사스대학교 알링턴 캠퍼스는 그를 우주를 비행한 최초의 인도 출신 여성이라고 소개한다.
STS-87에서는 미세중력 실험과 태양 관측 비행의 임무전문가이자 주 로봇팔 조작자였다. 16일간 약 80건의 실험을 수행한 전용 과학 임무 STS-107에서는 연소 모듈 등의 실험을 맡았고 레드팀으로서 컬럼비아호 기동을 도왔다.
우주비행사가 되기 전 그는 1988년부터 NASA 에임스 연구센터에서 동력 양력 공기역학을 연구했고, 1993년부터는 오버셋 메소즈의 부사장 겸 연구 과학자로 일했다. 1988년에 항공우주공학 박사 학위를 받았다.
삶의 장면들
STS-107 비행 13일째에 진공 펌프 문제로 물안개 실험이 위태로워지자, 그는 지상팀이 마련한 수리를 하기 위해 휴식 시간을 내놓겠다고 자원했다.
이는 실험이 위험에 처했을 때 추가 노력을 자원하는 태도와 부합한다. 선제적 행동력
1994년 그는 NASA 연구비 과제의 책임연구자로서 128노드와 208노드 병렬 컴퓨터에서 오버셋 격자 유동 해석기를 돌리는 연구를 이끌었다.
이는 우주비행사가 되기 전부터 까다로운 기술 분석에 익숙했던 것과 부합한다. 분석적 엄밀성
전환점
1994년 12월 NASA가 그를 우주비행사 후보로 선발하면서 공기역학 연구자에서 우주비행사 훈련생이 되었고, 1996년 11월에는 STS-87의 주 로봇팔 조작자로 비행 임무를 맡았다.
이는 오랫동안 쌓은 기술 역량을 우주비행으로 돌린 것과 부합한다. 숙련 지향
비슷한 인물
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출처
- Kalpana Chawla (Q237879) -- verified live via the Wikidata API (2026-10-24): English label 'Kalpana Chawla', description 'American astronaut', Korean label '칼파나 촐라', born 17 March 1962, died 1 February 2003, citizenship United States and India. Orientation only; not used as support for any row.
- NASA Johnson Space Center, 'Kalpana Chawla (Ph.D.), NASA Astronaut (Deceased)' biographical data sheet (May 2004, read in full): degrees from Punjab Engineering College (1982), the University of Texas (1984) and the University of Colorado (1988); research at NASA Ames on powered-lift computational fluid dynamics from 1988; vice president and research scientist at Overset Methods from 1993; selection as an astronaut candidate in December 1994; assignment as prime robotic arm operator on STS-87; later crew-systems and habitability lead; STS-87 and STS-107 flights totalling 30 days 14 hours 54 minutes; her pilot and flight-instructor ratings. CANONICAL SIGNIFICANCE SOURCE. Official institutional biography; no trait claims, and its passage on her death is not used for any row.
- NASA, 'Remembering Columbia: STS-107 crew biographies' page, Kalpana Chawla entry (read for the mission-role passage only): flight engineer and Mission Specialist 2 for STS-107, a Red Team member responsible with the commander for maneuvering Columbia in support of payload-bay experiments, and the list of experiments she worked with (including the Combustion Module with its water-mist and flame-ball experiments, protein crystal growth and biotechnology units). Official mission record; the accident material on the page was not used.
- NASA Johnson Space Center, 'STS-87 Space Shuttle Mission Report' (read in the sections on mission summary, robotic arm operations and the Spartan payload): the 19 November to 5 December 1997 Columbia mission, the Spartan 201-04 deployment, a failed re-grapple attempt and the manual capture by the spacewalking crew a day later, and a statement that a formal investigation board was convened. Official mission record without individual attribution; the board's findings were not found and not read, so no row or card rests on the Spartan episode.
- Overset Methods, Inc., 'Overset Grid Applications on Distributed Memory MIMD Computers', progress report for NASA Grant NCC 2-806 to NASA Ames Research Center, 30 June 1994 (NASA Technical Reports Server NASA-CR-196081; Principal Investigator Dr. Kalpana Chawla; read through its abstract, objectives and structure): a study of implementing an overset-grid implicit flow solver on 128-node and 208-node Intel parallel computers, with performance data for two composite grid configurations. Research record co-authored with Sisira Weeratunga; read at abstract and outline level, not for the numerical detail.
- University of Texas at Arlington College of Engineering, 'UTA Remembers Kalpana Chawla, Columbia Crew 15 Years Later', 1 February 2018 (read in full): her UTA master's degree in 1984 and research on a cross-flow fan propulsion system, her professor Don Wilson recalling her as 'highly-motivated' with 'a burning desire to excel', Astronaut Office chief Kent Rominger saying she was admired 'for her strive for perfection', and her work at Ames and Overset Methods. Alumni-office tribute with admiring recollections; counted as retrospective praise, not as independent behavioural evidence, and the presidential memorial quotation was not used.
- NASASpaceFlight.com, 'STS-107: Remembering the accomplishments of the Columbia crew', 2013 (read in full, in the flight-day account): the red and blue crew shifts of the 16-day science mission, the failure of a vacuum pump in the water-mist experiment and the ground team's fix, and the statement that Kalpana Chawla offered to give up her off-duty time on flight day 13 to carry out the repair, which in the end took five astronauts and two days. Space-press retrospective built from NASA mission reports; the entry and accident passages were not used.
- NASA Image and Video Library record KSC-02pd1127 ('Official portrait of astronaut Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist', 8 March 2002), NASA media usage guidelines and the Wikimedia Commons file page 'Kalpana Chawla, NASA photo portrait in orange suit.jpg' (live check 2026-10-24) -- checked for the portrait.





