# Kalpana Chawla (@kalpana-chawla)

Kalpana Chawla was an aerospace engineer and astronaut, and the first woman born in India to travel in space.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Kalpana Chawla's public record._

## Topics

- [Columbia legacy](/@kalpana-chawla/columbia.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Aerospace engineering](/@kalpana-chawla/engineering.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Space missions](/@kalpana-chawla/space-missions.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nasa.gov/people/kalpana-chawla/
- blog: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/chawla_kalpana.pdf
- blog: https://www.uta.edu/academics/schools-colleges/engineering/about/kalpana-chawla

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "kalpana-chawla", "question": "…"}`.