Kalpana Chawla was born on March 17, 1962, in Karnal, Haryana and is regarded as a striking astronaut for playing a leading role on the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997. Working at the forefront of ...

As per her wishes, Chawla’s remains were cremated and scattered at a national park in Utah. She was married to Jean-Pierre Harrison for 20 years until her untimely death in February 2003. Following ...

Her husband, Jean-Pierre Harrison, author of “The Edge of Time: The Authoritative Biography of Kalpana Chawla,” opened ... on board the Columbia space as the shuttle broke apart, killing ...

Dr Dinesh C. Sharma uses two broad themes in his book—the ISRO story and Indians in space, with special focus on astronauts ...

Joey Arora is the esteemed recipient of the Kalpana Chawla Outstanding Recent Graduate Award ... There, she met the crew of NASA’s 77th space shuttle mission and was inspired to pursue an advanced ...

Chawla’s journey began in 1997, becoming the first Indian-born woman in space, and later serving on STS-107 in 2003, dedicated to microgravity experiments aboard Columbia. The STS-107 mission ...

Kalpana Chawla: Born on March 17 ... She made history as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 and later lost her life in the tragic Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003.

The decision was heavily influenced by the lessons learned from the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, both of which were caused by overlooked technical issues that resulted in the ...

Founded in 1962, the Kennedy Space Center has launched NASA astronauts from Neil Armstrong to Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams into space ... we quickly moved through these initial exhibits and ...

It is indeed a proud moment for us to have been launching Kalpana Chawla’s inspirational quotes ... crew members who tragically died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the spacecraft ...