How did Kalpana Chawla become an astronaut? What gave her the idea that she could be an astronaut?

Kalpana Chawla applied in NASA and was selected as a research scientist in 1994. Her first space mission as an astronaut was in the space shuttle, Columbia. She was a qualified aviator and she could fly airplanes. This made her to think about being an astronaut.

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