What was the birth name of American astronaut Kalpana Chawla?
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Kalpana Chawla was born on March 17, 1962 in Karnal, Haryana, India. She was the first Indian-American woman to go to space and was one of the seven astronauts killed when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry on February 1, 2003.
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