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	RBC RADIO - Century - Kalpana Chawla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kalpana's journey into space was a long way from her family's humble beginnings.
		Kalpana would soon become instrumental in the testing of space control software in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory and became mission specialist and prime arm operator on the STS - 87, involved in the manual capture of an orbiting satellite.
		Kalpana then spoke of her upcoming second voyage into space and of the beauties of India's mighty rivers and majestic valleys all of which she saw the first time she was in space.
	www.rbcradio.com /kalpanachawla.html (807 words)

	Smt. Kalpana Venkat
		Kalpana began her training on the violin at the age of six under her mother, Seetha Kishore, a vainika.
		Kalpana is an ‘A’ grade artist of All India Radio and has performed on national television and radio on numerous occasions over the years.
		Kalpana is deeply dedicated to sharing her knowledge with her students, and to ensuring that they receive training in an authentic paadantharam (tradition), as she has from her Gurus.
	www.kalpanaswaram.com (736 words)

	Abduction of Kalpana Chakma
		Kalpana Chakma, a twenty three years old human rights activist was abducted on 12 June 1996 from her home at Lallyaghona village by the members of the Bangladesh Army.
		Kalpana Chakma is still missing, it is feared that she might have been killed if she did not agree to marry Lieutenant Ferdous, the army officer who led the abduction.
		Abduction of Kalpana Chakma was not an isolated incident.
	www.angelfire.com /ab/jumma/rape/kalpana.html (1189 words)

	Kalpana Chawla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kalpana Chawla (Hindi: कल्‍पना चावला) (July 1, 1961 – 1 February 2003), was an Indian-born American astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist.
		Kalpana is a Sanskrit name meaning "fantasy" or "imagination." Her interest in flight was inspired by J.
		Kalpana Chawla married Jean-Pierre Harrison in 1983 and became a naturalized United States citizen in 1990.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kalpana_Chawla (1047 words)

	Astro News - Nehru Centre
		Said Kalpana, "They don't tell you when they'll come, but you know at the end of the day someone will get you." Even though she had a degree in aerospace engineering, NASA was looking for a candidate's ability to solve technical problems.
		Kalpana emerged a topper in the aeronautical course, and her family sensed it coming: her plan to go abroad.
		Kalpana's selection for the 88th mission of the Columbia shuttle has sent the hometown into frenzyKalpana was a strict vegetarian and refuses to even share the table with meat-eaters.
	www.nehrucentremumbai.com /archives/kalpana.htm (1980 words)

	The Chawlas' odyssey
		Kalpana's story is incomplete without the story of her parents, especially that of Banarasi Lal Chawla, who landed in the wilderness of Karnal a few days after August 15.
		Chawla was in the US when Kalpana learnt that she had topped Punjab University in the engineering finals, and was offered a job in her own college.
		He began calling friends in the US, and finally arranged for Kalpana to be admitted behind schedule -- in fact, the university even organised a pickup for Kalpana and her brother from the airport.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/feb/01spec.htm (2901 words)

	Trinetizen - Kalpana Chawla: Destined For The Stars
		Kalpana graduated in 1982 and the move to the United States was inevitable.
		Kalpana counted Patty Wagstaff, a three-time U.S. National Aerobatic Champion, and Peter Matthiessen, a travel chronicler as among those who inspired her, but also paid tribute to her teachers in high school in India.
		Kalpana was assigned as mission specialist and prime robotic arm operator on STS-87 and was in space for 16 days from November 19 to December 5, 1997.
	www.trinetizen.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=354 (2185 words)

	Astronaut Bio: Kalpana Chawla 5/04
		Her research concentrated on simulation of complex air flows encountered around aircraft such as the Harrier in "ground-effect." Following completion of this project she supported research in mapping of flow solvers to parallel computers, and testing of these solvers by carrying out powered lift computations.
		Results of various projects that Kalpana Chawla participated in are documented in technical conference papers and journals.
		In November, 1996, Kalpana Chawla was assigned as mission specialist and prime robotic arm operator on STS-87.
	www.jsc.nasa.gov /Bios/htmlbios/chawla.html (551 words)

	SPACE.com -- Astronaut Biography: Kalpana Chawla
		In November, 1996, Kalpana Chawla was assigned as mission specialist and prime robotic arm operator on STS-87 (November 19 to December 5, 1997).
		In completing her first mission, Kalpana Chawla traveled 6.5 million miles in 252 orbits of the Earth and logged 376 hours and 34 minutes in space.
		In January, 1998, Kalpana Chawla was assigned as crew representative for shuttle and station flight crew equipment.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/bio_chawla.html (1534 words)

	BHARAT RAKSHAK MONITOR: Volume 5(5) March-April 2003
		Dr Kalpana Chawla was born on 01 July 1961 in Karnal, Haryana, to Shrimati Sanyogita Chawla and Shri Banarsi Lal Chawla.
		Kalpana Chawla's flight, the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-87 mission, was the eighth shuttle mission in 1997 and the 88th mission flown since the program began in 1981.
		During the mission, Kalpana along with astronaut Rick Husband, was responsible for manoeuvring Columbia as part of several experiments in the shuttle's payload bay.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /MONITOR/ISSUE5-5/Srinivasan.html (932 words)

	Kalpana Chawla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kalpana, daughter of Banarasi Lal Chawla and Sanyogita Chawla was very much like her parents.
		Kalpana would simply introduce herself with, "Hi, I am KC." She was known to be simple and down-to-earth to her friends and family.
		Kalpana continued her association with her school in Karnal.
	www.kalpanachawlanasa.com (518 words)

	kalpana-chawla
		Houston (Texas), Feb. 1: Dr Kalpana Chawla, the Indian American who was flying on the doomed US space shuttle Columbia for a second time, carried with her a silk banner paying tribute to her school teacher whom she had lost touch with, Nirmala Namboothiripad.
		Kalpana, who became the first Indian-American astronaut flying to space on the same space shuttle on November 19, 1997, was a student from Karnal in Haryana, who always dreamt of flying.
		Kalpana was hired by MCAT Institute, San Jose, California, as a research scientist to support research in the area of powered fin at Nasa Ames Research Centre, California, in 1988.
	www.vepachedu.org /kalpana-chawla.html (1050 words)

	Nation - Kalpana aimed at moon - profile
		Kalpana Chawla, the India-born space scientist, who died in yesterday's crash of the space shuttle Columbia, reflected exactly this.
		Kalpana took a degree in aeronautical engineering from the Punjab Engineering College and pursued higher studies at the University of Texas, from where she did her masters in the same subject.
		Thereafter, it was no looking back for Kalpana, After a highly successful stint at the NASA Ames Research Centre, she briefly joined a private firm as a vice president simulating various body functions for future space missions.
	www.mid-day.com /news/nation/2003/february/43511.htm (558 words)

	INDOlink NRI News - Kalpana Chawla Lifts Off on Space Mission! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kalpana is part of a 16 day research mission which includes various scientific experiments and studies, as well as the first space walk by a Japanese astronaut.
		As a mission specialist, Kalpana is responsible for the release of a free-flying satellite to study the hot outer layers of the sun's atmosphere or corona, and the effect of microgravity on a variety of materials.
		Kalpana completed a special two year training at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, preparing her in space, land and sea survival, as well as intricate operations of the space shuttle.
	www.indolink.com /NRINews/kalpana3.html (332 words)

	Kalpana Chawla
		Family members, teachers and college mates of Kalpana Chawla today demanded that the India-born US astronaut, who died in the Columbia space shuttle crash, be honoured with the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian award.
		Human remains believed to be those of the seven astronauts, including India-born Kalpana Chawla, on board the ill-fated American shuttle Columbia have been located in Texas and Louisiana even as investigators struggled to establish the cause of the breakup of the spacecraft minutes before its landing.
		Kalpana Chawla, who perished in the space shuttle disaster, did not care much about risks and was very cheerful and confident before she took off on the ill-fated space odyssey, her close relatives said.
	www.mid-day.com /events/kalpana.htm (1477 words)

	The Odyssey of the Chawlas - Part III
		As Sunita remembers it, Sanjay was to give Kalpana some valuable advice: "Everyone fights their own battles." Chawla was in the US when Kalpana learnt that she had topped Punjab University in the engineering finals, and was offered a job in her own college.
		Megha, a Class V student, said before Kalpana took off on what was to be her last voyage, that she wanted to be an astronaut like her aunt.
		Till the evening of Saturday, January 31, the story was that of a man who survived untold horrors and went on to make a fortune; and his daughter who, against the odds, went on to make her name in one of the most challenging of careers.
	www.chennaionline.com /society/kalpanachawla2.asp (985 words)

	Did you know Kalpana was called Monto?
		When Kalpana was born on March 17, 1962, in Karnal, her father was still a petty businessman trying hard to support his growing joint family of sixteen members.
		It was after Kalpana had secured admission to the Punjab Engineering College that her father, whose business often kept him out of Karnal, became aware of her plans and tried his best to dissuade her.
		Kalpana was respectful and courteous to all her teachers and was always keen to learn any new thing from anybody, be it a clerical job or handling a sophisticated equipment.
	specials.rediff.com /news/2004/feb/20spec.htm (2345 words)

	Dario-V- - songs to download - Blues for Kalpana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kalpana Chawla was responsible for more than twelve scientific experiments on the Shuttle Columbia.
		Kalpana Chawla was born forty-one years ago in Karnal, about one-hundred-thirty kilometers north of New Delhi.
		Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian-born woman in space.
	www.dariomusic.com /kalpana.htm (695 words)

	KALPANA JOSHI: MARTIAL ARTS HEROINE AGAINST THE RAJ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kalpana familiarised herself with pro-independence, revolutionary literature and - unusually for women of her time - taught herself martial arts, including the use of daggers and sticks.
		As Kalpana put it later, the plan was that when, after the Chittagong rebellion, "the government would bring in troops to take back Chittagong, they (the militants) would die fighting - thus creating a legend and setting an example before their countrymen to emulate." Sen was arrested in February, 1933, sentenced to death and hanged.
		Kalpana, who was captured 18 months later, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the island jail of Andamans, the judge declaring she had been spared the hangman's noose on account of her young age and gender.
	www.hindunet.org /alt_hindu/1995_Feb_2/msg00071.html (896 words)

	Network Computing \| Feature \| Network Computing's 10th Anniversary \| Top 10 Products: Number 5 \| October 2, 2000
		The EtherSwitch was basically a bridge, but Kalpana's twist on the bridging concept was to build one with many ports, not just two, as was common in the industry.
		But Kalpana stayed too long with its pure cut-through technology (transmitting the packet on the outgoing port before the entire packet had reached the incoming port), which prevented the incorporation of higher-speed uplinks.
		By 1994, Kalpana was in a dogfight with 3Com and other switching vendors, which had embraced higher-speed uplinks and had deeper pockets for development than Kalpana had.
	www.networkcomputing.com /1119/1119f1products_5.html (709 words)

	The Shorthorn Online \| News \| Kalpana Chawla Hall dedicated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Chawla, father of alumna Kalpana Chawla, witnessed the dedication of KC Hall on Friday afternoon.
		Kalpana was one of seven astronauts who died in the 2003 Columbia Space Shuttle explosion.
		Kalpana Chawla Hall is the only residence on campus with the Freshman Interest Group program.
	www.theshorthorn.com /archive/2004/fall/04-sep-28/n092804-05.html (486 words)

	NRIinternet.com---NRIs in NASA
		Calling it as indeed a ``tragic day'' for the NASA family, the top administrator of the agency, Sean O'Keefe, told a press briefing that the terrible tragedy was not caused ``from the ground''.
		Kalpana Chawla, who was killed in the Columbia space shuttle tragedy along with six others, had done India proud when she embarked on her first space mission on November 19, 1997.
		Selected by NASA in December 1994, Kalpana Chawla reported to the Johnson Space Center in March 1995 as an astronaut candidate in the 15th Group of Astronauts.
	www.nriinternet.com /Section3Who/WhoUSA/NASA/Chawla/kalpana.htm (8776 words)

	IndiaPost. Tributes to Kalpana
		NEW DELHI: Kalpana Chawla may have struggled alone to travel from Karnal to Houston, but her success was for all to see.
		Kalpana’s body was cremated and her ashes were scattered across the National Park at Utah and over the Himalayas, as she had wished.
		Kalpana was as much an American as she was Indian.
	www.indiapost.com /members/story.php?story_id=2416 (992 words)

	News @ Cisco: Cisco to Acquire Kalpana, Leading Ethernet Switching Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The transaction, approved by the board of directors of both Cisco and Kalpana, is subject to several conditions including approval of Kalpana shareholders and receipt of an opinion that the transaction will be accounted for as a pooling of interests.
		Kalpana presently has approximately 150 employees and is based in Sunnyvale, California with regional offices in the U.S. and distributors in Europe and Asia.
		Kalpana is considered to be the inventor of Ethernet switching, and designs and manufactures internetworking products that increase the throughput of Ethernet networks.
	newsroom.cisco.com /dlls/1994/corp_102494.html (480 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Biographies - Kalpana Chawla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Her family's legacy was one of triumph over tragedy, and for Kalpana Chawla the dream of adding to her family's legacy was to materialize when she went into space in 1997 as the first Indian woman to do so.
		Kalpana Chawla was born in Karnal, India, in 1961, the youngest of the four children of Banarsi Lal Chawla and Sanjogta Kharbanda.
		Kalpana was supposed to be home, but she wasn't.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/whm/bio/chawla_k.htm (1717 words)

	Kalpana Chawla - A Tribute
		Kalpana Chawla is the first Indian-American woman to fly into space.
		Born in Karnal, India, she graduated from the Tagore School in Karnal in 1976, and did a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College in 1982.
		Seated in front are astronauts Rick D. Husband (left), mission commander; Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist; and William C. McCool, pilot.
	www.uta.edu /student_orgs/fsi/kalpana.htm (596 words)

	CNN.com - Woman who lived space dream - Feb. 2, 2003
		CNN's Daryn Kagan has a look at an unlikely astronaut: mission specialist Kalpana Chawla, a woman who grew up in India drawing airplanes and always dreamed of flying.
		India is mourning the loss of astronaut Kalpana Chawla, one of seven astronauts killed aboard the space shuttle Columbia.
		Chawla, who was born in the small town of Karnal in northern India in 1961, was the most experienced astronaut on shuttle mission STS-107 and has been lauded as a heroine in her home country.
	www.cnn.com /2003/TECH/space/02/01/shuttle.columbia.chawla/index.html (464 words)

	Shaadionline - Unique services: Kalpana Harsora (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shaadionline brings to you Kalpana Harsora, a Mehendi artist from Mumbai, who has taken India and the UK by storm with her innovativeness.
		In this profession since twenty years, Kalpana says it is "her passion and not a 'profession' " - or else the enthusiasm and zest could not have sustained itself.
		Kalpana's services are available across the country and are brought to you by Shaadionline.
	www.shaadionline.com.cob-web.org:8888 /sol/asp/usrv/forthedayus_kalpana.asp (185 words)

	Bio of KALPANA CHAWLA
		Kalpana Chawla, Ph.D. NASA bio of KALPANA CHAWLA, Ph.D. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/chawla.html
		NEW DELHI: "I was not born for one corner," said astronomer Kalpana Chawla quoting philosopher Seneca.
		On her first mission, Kalpana traveled 6.5 million miles in 252 orbits of the Earth and logged 376 hours and 34 minutes in space.
	isc.temple.edu /neighbor/courses/chawla.htm (332 words)

	Indians Mourn Death of Astronaut Kalpana Chawla - 2003-02-01
		Kalpana Chawla was a national heroine in India.
		Her official NASA portrait was recently on the cover of a leading Indian news magazine, which voted her the most prominent among millions of Indians to emigrate overseas.
		Kalpana Chawla's parents and several siblings had traveled to the United States to witness her most recent shuttle mission.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2003-02/a-2003-02-01-33-Indians.cfm (401 words)

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