Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian-born woman to go to space in 1997. Six years later, on February 1, 2003, Chawla died when the space shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry into Earth's ...

Sunita Williams, a NASA astronaut, is getting ready for her eagerly anticipated return to Earth as the SpaceX Crew-10 mission prepares to launch to the ISS on Wednesday. This historic moment holds ...

“Kalpana Chawla means to me: a guiding path,” said Singh. “I was into the aerospace field and space, but I [did] not know where to go. But when I read her biography, I got to know, these ...

Kalpana Chawla was the first woman of Indian origin ... Jean-Pierre Harrison wrote the authoritative biography on the astronaut titled, “The Edge of Time”. At Hindustan Times, we help you ...

Indian student co-leads her team to win rocketry award in the US For Indian student Ankita Kalra, rocketry was never a part of the college curriculum at the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT ...

Tonight, we explore the legacy of Kalpana Chawla, the first American of Indian descent to travel to space, who gave her life in the pursuit of research, science and exploration. In 1997 ...

Kalpana Chawla was the first woman of Indian-origin ... She was fascinated by planes and aircraft since her childhood... She always dreamt of the stars and somehow I feel she dissolved into ...

However, Chawla took a different approach. She decided not to take samosas to space. Her husband, Jean-Pierre Harrison, author of “The Edge of Time: The Authoritative Biography of Kalpana Chawla ...

Tonight, we explore the legacy of Kalpana Chawla, the first American of Indian descent to travel to space, who gave her life in the pursuit of research, science and exploration. This Asian ...