Kalpana Chawla Indian-American Astronaut

 Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-born American astronaut and engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to go to space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator. Her second flight was on STS-107, the final flight of Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003. 

Born: 17 March 1962, Karnal is a city located in the state of Haryana, India.

Died: 1 February 2003, Texas, United States, in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, along with the other six crew members, when the Columbia disintegrated over Texas during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, shortly before it was scheduled to conclude its 28th mission, STS-107.

The story is that 1 hour on that particular planet is equivalent to 7 years in space. Time dilation is real, but it's completely unrealistic that it would have an effect anywhere near that in any realistic scenario. In practice, it's a tiny fraction of a second, not many years. If atoms come to a complete stop, they are at absolute zero. Space is just above that, at an average temperature of 2.7 Kelvin (about minus 455 degrees Fahrenheit).

Education: University of Colorado Boulder (1988).Thesis: Computation of dynamics and control of unsteady vortical flows (1988).  Tagore Baal Niketan Sr. Sec. School.  Punjab Engineering College.

Awards: Congressional Space Medal of Honor, NASA Space Flight Medal.