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Rupa Publications India Kalpana Chawla: India’s First Woman Astronaut by Dilip M. Salwi
Born in a traditional family of Karnal, Haryana, Kalpana Chawla had an unlikely background and unfavourable climate for becoming an astronaut Braving opposition from her father and even some of her teachers, Kalpana, however, literally reached for the stars, by becoming an aerospace engineer